Chapter 78: "Look at me, Scarlett!"

“Are you sure you found them this way?”

I keep my eyes on the tea I'm brewing and try not to make eye contact with Roman’s beta.

I nod.

A lie, but one that I can always own up to later.

Right now Roman and Danis are lying on couches. Roman’s form almost totally envelopes the couch he’s laying on, yet his legs still dangle off the edge. He’s still unconscious.

I can’t say he’s asleep because I know he isn’t. By the time I dropped Danis on the rug in his office and went back out to check on him, he could barely stand.

I’ve never seen a man try to hide the pain he’s feeling that much but Roman did. He tried to hide the pain he was feeling so much, that he must have passed out from the stress it took on his brain.

I certainly didn’t try to hit his head on the wall to make him pass out or anything like that.

I want to chuckle but I can't.

Some would argue that seeing him in so much pain but trying his best to hide it was too much for me to bear. Though why that would be true is something