Chapter Forty Four: I decline

"You want me to be your mistress?" I repeated slowly, fixing my gaze on Elias through the tears I was fighting so hard to keep from coming, causing the world around me to blur. "How could you possibly even ask me that?"

"Is something wrong with what I asked?" He asked, seeming confused. "I thought you would be happy."

"Happy?"

I couldn't stop the laugh that escaped me as the first tear slid down my cheek. He had to be out of his mind to think something like that would make any woman happy.

"How in the world would being a side piece possibly make me happy?"

I didn't know if the man was daft or if he was truly that oblivious to human emotion. There was no way any normal person would think someone would be thrilled to be second-best. Not to mention that Veronica already hated my guts; she would do everything in her power to kill me if I became his mistress, not that I ever would anyway.

Nothing about his offer was appeasing to me. He may have thought that he was helping me deal with my in