Inferno(James POV)

The hospital had cleared Marina to come home, but I was torn.

Rosa had heard me say that I would divorce her. The look in her eyes will haunt me forever.

Once she’d stitched up her wound and it had stopped bleeding, I’d slowly been able to pull myself from whatever trance she’d had me wrapped in.

Marina was my mate. Not only that, but she was the last remaining link to my past life. And the key to my future.

I couldn’t explain why Onyx had awoken at the scent of Rosa’s blood. I couldn’t make sense of any of it.

“Fuck,” I growled, slamming my fist against my desk.

I don’t beg for anything. I’m James fucking Wood. I don’t need to beg. But today, I was reduced to a blubbering mess trying to hold onto a marriage that I never even wanted.

Marina hasn’t spoken to me since we’ve been home. She heard me beg Rosa to stay. She heard the desperation in my voice, but I couldn’t tell her the truth. I couldn’t explain to her something that I didn’t even understand myself.

Surely Ros