Chapter Twenty Eight

"I didn't even know you cared. I am so sorry," I said.

I stumbled over my words, my mind numb from everything he just confessed to me.

"No. Don't you dare apologize. There is no need for that."

His statement came out as a growl, and my lips instantly snapped shut.

"I don't know what I feel, Ophelia. You were right about my lifestyle. I knew it long before you yelled it in my face," he admitted.

I tried to smile to show that I had forgiven him, but he didn't return it. Instead he frowned deeply and pursed his lips. That was when I realized that he was staring at our clasped hands and I began to feel the tension in the air increasing again.

"But to date; to commit to you... I have never done that before."

He began to shake his head, and I could tell his emotions were starting to betray him. Fear coursed through me as he tried to leave the bed, looking desperate to escape the situation he had found himself in.

I know he was scared of a situation where he felt something. And I coul