Chapter 31 Using Her. Natasha Reeds. It was like my brain short-circuited when he mentioned that the phone was for Elara. “I'm sorry, what?” I tilted my head to the side to hear him even more clearly. “What did you say?” He shot a look at me with a frown on his face and concentrated on driving, ignoring my question. I could feel my heart aching as if a whole were being dug inside it. This wasn't the way our relationship had always been. Even if our marriage was that of convenience, we got really close to each other at some point because we accepted our fate. We bonded. I fell in love. Now, I felt like the man I came to love was slowly slipping away from me… About to be snatched by that woman. “Rowan…" I called his full name for the first time in a while. “Do you hate me?” His thick

