Chapter 60

• Syl looked at me sympathetically as I told him about the agony I suffered at Kaiser’s hands, starting from the interview up to bedding his brother-in-law and then being sent to serve Lenard Lee. “I shouldn’t have trusted him,” I said, not allowing myself to shed any tears. “But I did, and I made the wrong choice.”
• “Piper,” he heaved a long sigh and took me into a bear hug. “I thought you were going to hate me for all I did to you then.”
• My heart numbed. If only I knew the truth, would things have turned out differently? I was still infertile and could never give him biological children. This was why I had left him in the first place, and things could never go back to the past.