Chapter 131 : Unfolding

Christian

I'm too stunned to speak after what she has uttered. Sympathy, guilt and compensation. Those three words— those three reasons were definitely not behind my love for her. I grab her arm abruptly and turn her towards me.

"What are you uttering?" I shrug. She doesn't look at me. "Look at me, Iv", I grab her jaw and lift her face, bringing her rosy eyes to me. "I asked what the hell you meant by this?"

Her complaint filled eyes linger on me. 

"Do you really think I love you just out of sympathy? Just because I feel guilty for leaving you and our unborn child? Do you think this is the reason I put my heart and soul to keep you happy?"

She doesn't answer but her silence says it all.

Nothing stung so hard before. I lose my voice to speak with her silence which keeps yelling at me that she doesn't trust my love. Still. 

"How can you question my love, Iv?" I whisper out of nowhere, terribly hurt