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Damien's POV

In retrospect, I shouldn't have been so harsh. I should have been a little more tolerant.

The thing was that was the last thing I had expected her to ask about. So her query had shaken me and I flared up and reacted based on my instincts.

My mind went back to that time. That time that we lost the child. The thing was I didn't know about the child until later, much later, or I would have put in measures to keep Keturah protected.

Keturah hid that information from me and I didn't understand why until recently. I would have realized the truth. That she wanted to keep the child because deep down she wanted more than the relationship we had.

Mere minutes after I found out and was confronting Keturah, we were attacked and the pregnancy was lost.

The loss had bound us even tighter as we sought for comfort in each other. That should have been my first sign to stay away from her but I couldn't leave her like that at that point. I was mean not heartless.

I had to do something