Chapter 172 Her Silence

• Her silence pressed him into more speech, his eagerness to convince her of his sincerity permeating every word. “When I read your book, I realised what a fool I’d been to even question your integrity and your ability to do anything you set out to do. I hadn’t meant to hurt you. I’m sorry I did. Genuinely sorry.”
• The passion in his voice stormed around her heart, squeezing. She wrenched her gaze from his, afraid of being swayed into clutching at some way to have another chance with him. But the idea of deception was sickening. The truth about her pregnancy would have to come out. No choice at all. And she couldn’t bear him to feel bound to her because of their baby. This nerve-tearing impasse had to be ended.
• “I forgive you that hurt,” she said flatly, staring at the long red streaks in the sky, the bleeding tatters of a dying day. “You don’t have to worry about it anymore.”