The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 35
My eyes detached from his wound and reluctantly met his. “I wanted to leave before you could ask me to.”
He frowned at me, a mix of confusion and exasperation clouding his features. “Why would I ask you to do that?”
I stood up suddenly, wanting to increase the space between us as my confessions plagued the air. The willow watched us wearily.
aving my arm toward the garden that he made glow.
t go on.”
y back to him.
ne. “That makes no sense, Cathy.”
th, glaring. He stayed silent when he saw my expression.
ack and forth. “You protected me, you moved me into a beautiful home. But it’s not for me.”
d, as if he was entertaining a child’s wild theories.
hat he did everything for me.
my lip trembling. “You do it all for Theo.”
But when I did not say anything, the snide look on his face disappeared. “Of course I do it for my son,” he said, confused, “what are you getting at?”
des felt bruised. “So it’s true.”
do things for his son?” he frowned, tilting his head.
ok my head, sighing. “You do it only for Theo.”
ce. “Cathy, that’s—”
I cut him off, “it’s true.”
on looking more like outrage now.
om the very beginning,” I said, and just realized my voice
moment, registering this.
wn words. Our son felt so foreign on my tongue.
my face?” I sneered, challenging him.
different…it was like every other girl. A girl who agreed to my every word and looked at me like I was worth more than her,” he said, “but when I met you that day in the cottage…”
” I snapped/
that to me, not even the conniving Emily.”
e after we met a third time because you knew Theo was your son.”
red, his eyebro
, and I knew it was to investigate Theo, “not me.”
“what does that have to do with any of
dead flowers as my voice broke from the tears, “you don’t need me anym
back.
o be dismissed by you a second time,” I clenched my jaw, willing my scolding gaze to look up at him, “so just go. You did
pped away. His wound had stopped bleeding.
ed them away, swiping the ones away from my cheek.
you’re my wife.”
wouldn’t still be if Theo
s. “Until now.”
hat, looking suddenly guilty. The frowning line between his eyebrows vanished, along with his physical conviction. “I was going to apologize for that,” he admitted, and he reminded me of a reprimanded Theo. “I should have never let myself become that angry with you. I never want to make you scared of me.”
end even more torturous time with me.”
pletely different reason. I-I was mad that you were still keeping secrets from me.”
ded to finally get away from me.”
I paused.
clearly don’t…don’t care enough about me,” he said, looking slightly shameful and embarrassed.
accuse me of not caring for you?” I sniped, outraged.
aid acidly, “jus
fully care for you, while knowing after you get what you want, you’re just going to leave?”
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