I thought of Seraphina’s patience and the wrongs she’d endured, of how I’d sent her to that country villa to suffer, of how I’d forced her to work in a restaurant and endure humiliation, of the cold look in her eyes and the resolute set of her back the last time she left, of how she’d once asked me Do you love me? and I’d never had an answer for her.Regret crashed over me like a tidal wave, threatening to pull me under entirely.At long last, I saw how terribly, how utterly I’d been wrong.I’d thought I was upholding my duty, protecting the family’s name, but all the while, Bianca had been twisting me around her little finger. I’d been hurting the woman who loved me the most, the one who deserved all my cherish.I’d pushed Seraphina away with my own hands. I’d destroyed our marriage with my own hands. I’d driven her to the brink with my own hands.When Bianca learned the truth was out, she shook like a leaf. She tried to explain herself, to beg for my forgiveness, but by then, anger a
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