Till Gray Do We Part のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 20

The regret came to Roman late, as it always did.If he had not gone chasing after excitement, if he had never taken up with another woman, would any of this have happened?Still, every man in his circle did the same thing—one woman at home and another on the side, sometimes several.Plenty of them played the field far more recklessly than he did, and Lana was gentle and agreeable. He could not understand why Celia refused to just accept it.The confusion sat alongside the regret, and neither one gave him any peace.He did not sleep at all that night. A restless, gnawing urgency lived in his chest, pressing him forward every second. He needed to find Celia faster, or he would regret it for the rest of his life.The team he had sent out searched for a long time before they finally came back with something.Joel walked into his office carrying a stack of documents and a USB drive and set them both down in front of him."Mr. Keller, we found her. Your wife... Ms. Vaughn took the di

Roman nearly laughed from the sheer audacity of it. A cold, humorless sound escaped him."Who said I don't love her? I love Celia. She's the one I love most. You were never anything more than a plaything. Who gave you permission to lay a hand on her?" He turned to Joel, his voice cutting. "What are you waiting for? Do I need to show you how it's done?"Joel kept his thoughts to himself. If Roman truly loved Celia, would he have treated her the way he did?Joel did not understand, but he did as he was told. He drew his hand back and struck Lana across the face with everything he had.Joel was not a small man, and he held nothing back. A single blow was enough to swell Lana's cheek. All traces of the fragile, pitiable creature she had been playing vanished in an instant.The force knocked her sideways against the wall, and tears, the genuine kind, streamed down her face. The defiance drained out of her just as quickly, replaced by desperate pleading."Roman, I know I was wrong. I

"I was too late the first time. I didn't get the chance to tell Celia how I felt about her. I'm not making that mistake again."Dominic's voice came through the phone clear and steady, and every word landed in Roman's ears like a bomb going off. Roman nearly lost his mind with rage.All this time, they had been steering him. They had been nudging him toward betraying Celia so that Dominic could step in.His eyes were bloodshot. He snatched the phone out of Travis' hand, his face twisting with fury. "Dominic, Celia will only ever love me. I'm going to apologize to her, and we'll work things out. She never fell for you back then. What makes you think you have a chance now? You don't."Dominic was perfectly calm. "She doesn't have to love me or be with me right now. That's fine. At the very least, I'm better than you. After what you put her through, even if she doesn't choose me, she will never go back to you."Roman's breath caught, and something sharp drove itself into his chest.

Dominic was right. Celia was probably never coming back. Still, no matter how determined Roman was to self-destruct, he woke up. Travis and the others eventually found him and rushed him to the hospital.When Roman finally opened his eyes, Travis let out a long breath of relief and started talking before Roman could get a word in."Roman, I get that you're in a bad place, but you can't just gamble with your own life like that."If you'd actually died, Celia would never know you regretted any of it. My brother likes her, sure, but he hasn't found her yet either. You still have a chance. Even if you two can't get back together, you should at least explain everything and tell her you're sorry."Or do you want her to go on hating you for the rest of her life? Do you want the version of you in her head to stay the worst one?"Something shifted in Roman's expression. After a long silence, he nodded. "You're right. I need to find her and apologize to her. I have to explain everything. Ma

Martin and Ruth were furious the moment they laid eyes on Roman. Neither of them bothered to hide it."Mr. Keller, you and our family are not the same kind of people. Go back to your privileged little world, where you can have as many women as you want and throw them away when you're bored. Our Celia is not your toy, and she is not your punching bag.""Our daughter was perfectly fine before she married you. Do you have any idea how much she suffered? How many times she was hurt? You had her thrown in a cell. You let her be abused over and over again. What did she ever do to deserve a man like you?"The more they spoke, the angrier they became. Tears streamed down their faces as they hit him, one blow after another.Roman stood with his head bowed and took every strike without resistance. The guilt was written all over him.Still, he could not stop himself from asking, "What about Dominic? He's the same kind of man I am. Same world, same money. Aren't you worried he'll turn out the