Chapter 38

Hearing her reply, he clenched his fists, and his breathing quickened as his spilled out his rage. With reddened eyes, he asked, “Why did you sleep with him?”

Her cheeks heated up from his question, “It was a mistake. Both of us drank at the wedding party, and he accidentally stumbled into my room. We were both drunk,” she explained.

As it was getting later, it had gotten colder. Despite being out in the cold air for a short while, her cheeks had gotten rosy, and she almost couldn’t feel her hands. Attempting to warm them up, she rubbed them together.

Noticing her do so, he took off his gloves. He carefully put them on for her after pulling her hands over to him, bottling up his pain and despair all the while.

Surprised, she wanted to pull away but they wouldn’t budge as his grip was tight.

In the dark stood Mark, leaning against the bark of the tree. As he watched their interaction, his bottomless looking eyes darkened further.

It didn’t help that he could hear every word of