Meadow’s POV:My breath stuttered and my eyelids fluttered. I had to physically clutch my chest through my top because his words had cut me deeply.‘Most marriages are jokes,’ he’d said. Like ours. Like my marriage to Alaric. A contract, his need to feel touch, my need to be ruined. It wasn’t real. None of it was.Yvonne scowled, curling her fists on the table. “I’m going to have a talk with his manager,” she gritted out, but before she could rise to her feet, I stopped her.“Don’t,” I muttered, shaking my head. “It’s not worth it.”‘He didn’t lie,’ I almost added.Yvonne watched me for a moment with her head tilted, almost like she was trying to figure something out. And then she asked out of nowhere: “Is your marriage a joke, Meadow?”My jaw ticked. “Now why on earth would you ask me that?”She hesitated before she answered. “I didn’t mean it like that. But like you said, I lied to you, and you wish I gave you a heads up. But if I had given you one, would you have left him, Meadow?”
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