Chapter 0020

ADONIS

“I want to do what’s best for you.”

“Best for me?” His brows creased. “By taking away part of your empire that I protect? That I work so damn hard to defend? I’ve been trying day and night to prove to everyone that I’m worth it, that I deserve this position just as much as everyone else, and you just want me to step back? Cower?”

“It’s not what I—”

“That’s not what you meant?”

I looked at Dad and then back at Eros. “I only want to protect you.”

“Like how you protected our sister?”

“Eros!” Dad roared.

Eros stared at me, his chest heaving as if he had just been snapped out of a phase. I knew he didn’t mean any of the things he had said, that deep down he knew all I wanted was for him to be safe, but his words hit a deeper nerve ending in my body. I looked away and gulped.

Eros was the one person I couldn’t burst out on.

I didn’t look but felt Eros shift from the couch and bolt out of the room, bumping his shoulders against that of the figure we had somehow missed noticin