Chapter 19.2: You Would Die for Me

Cecilia

“Didn’t you tell me you loved me so much, you’d give up anything just to be near me?” Emeric tightens his grip, making me whimper in pain. “Didn’t you say you wanted me to marry you? And what, now that I need your help, you don’t care whether I’m dead or alive?” 

Breathless and devastated, I nearly collapse on the spot. But Emeric holds me in place.

The room falls silent, and his words echo in my mind.

I thought I knew Emeric well. But I never imagined he could be so cruel as to mockingly repeat in public things I’d said to him in private, intimate moments.

I always thought that he just