Orion’s POV:
“I told you to stay here to protect her because I would be in a weakened state, and you end up making her stay up all night playing f*****g cards?!”
My voice echoed through the small meeting room, the weight of my anger settling heavily over my men.
She is pregnant.
She needs to have a proper night’s rest.
That’s why I had been worried and didn’t go for too long last night. I thought that when she had left the room, she had gone back because she was tired, and wanted to sleep.
But turns out I was wrong.
My chest tightens as Evangeline’s words from earlier replay in my mind. I knew she wasn’t wrong.
She had every right to be upset. To hate me. To despise me.
And I deserved it.
I had ruined her life, after all.
I am a monster.
But even knowing that—even knowing all
