Chapter 242

She looked down into her drink, and he had a feeling she wanted to hide from him. That she didn’t want him to see her like this at all.

"I’m telling you to leave me alone, Darian." She confirmed his suspicions. "I’m telling you that I feel as reckless and deranged as you have always called me. I’m telling you to not dissect my actions today and pronounce judgment. "

Even as her tone rose, she still didn’t meet his eyes.

Had he made it so hard for her to show him anything but that selfish facade? Was he truly such an unfeeling monster then?

Had he always been like that?

He had worked so hard at his grandfather’s small farm, trying to pitch in for his father’s negligence, afraid that they would throw Rhode and him out on the streets.

He remembered a strange calm the night his grandmother had said his mother wasn’t coming back; he remembered not shedding even a tear when he had found out that his father was dead. All he had thought of even that day was how he would shield Rhode from it.