“We’ve depended on each other for so long. I only have you, and you only
me! I don’t care that you were pregnant before-
that wasn’t your fault. It was that man’s. I’ll find him. I’ll make him pay! Let’s be together, please? I’ll marry you. I’ll treat you
well.”
His stubbornness, his mention of the baby–it lit the anger I’d tried so hard to bury.
Nearly all the terrible things in my life had happened on stormy nights. The howling wind, the crashing thunder–each time, it felt like the sky wanted to steal someone I loved.
And I knew, deep down, that part of the reason I lost that child was because of Callum.
My eyes filled with tears. I clenched my jaw and, without warning, slapped him hard across lace.
“You still dare bring up that baby?” My voice shook. “Callum, do you think I don’t hate you enough already?”
He didn’t argue. Just stood there, head bowed, his hand pressed to his cheek, letting me vent everything.
The more I looked at him, the angrier I became. I grabbed the teacup beside me and hurled it.
It missed, shattering against the wall.
The sound of porcelain breaking snapped me back. I closed my eyes, drained and furious, and shouted,
A voice came from the doorway. “Why, Diana, am I not welcome now?”
Topened my eyes and saw Samuel standing there, a little dusty from travel, holding a bouquet of flowers.
My anger melted into surprise, then joy.
I ignored Callum and smiled “Samuel, what are you doing here?”
He came closer, scanning me from head to toe. When he saw I was mostly okay, he finally let out a breath. “Scared the hell
out of me. Charles called and said something happened to you. I thought I was about to lose a great artist.”
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