Chapter 138

Evelyn’s pov

I took another look outside the window and I could feel my heart sinking even more. Why did I even think that he was going to come back? Why was I having that useless hope?

I decided that I would just go to bed but it was hard to just ignore that he had actually come last night and all those things that happened really happened between the two of us, it made me feel as if I had given myself up again, that I had allowed myself to be puppeted by him once more.

Throughout the day, he was the only thing on my mind. I could not get anything else in my mind and I had a meeting about some land disputes and I barely even listened to their conversation as I had to admit to myself that most of the time my father had to bring me back to reality, snapping his fingers lightly, tapping the table with his hands until I was jotted back into the same room with him but when he would ask me what was wrong I would have my head, put my hair back in place and tell him that everything was abso