Chapter 52

• Carmen pushed her food around on her plate, her appetite vanishing into thin air as she sat across from Ronin’s grandfather. It was hard for her to forget that he was the same man who had once pleaded with her to walk down the aisle, all in the name of preserving his family’s reputation.
• What a huge disaster it had been!
• Back then, Carmen had been naive enough to fall for their manipulation, allowing herself to be burdened with guilt even though she had done nothing wrong. But that was the consequence of her vulnerability, of wearing her heart on her sleeve.