Chapter 121

• Charlotte's eyes clouded with pain, and she lowered her gaze. “It’s not that simple. You don’t know—”
• “Then make me understand!” he interrupted sharply, and she recoiled at the sharpness of his words, but he didn’t see it. All he could focus on was the gaping hole of questions that threatened to swallow him whole.
• “I didn’t tell you because your father threatened me,” she confessed, each word a weighted admission. “He… he knew I was pregnant, Damien. He made it clear that if I ever told you, if you found out… I don’t want to endanger Leo.”