The Billionaire's Dangerous Claim
I pressed, my brow arched as I stared unwaveringly, careful not to blink and give her an opening to slip away.
She lowered her eyes and swallowed hard, choking down whatever words threatened to spill out.
"Well, it turns out the man I fell in love with... is a monster. A cruel one at that," she uttered at last, her voice dry and throaty, laced with pain.
In love with me?
Indeed, the man she fell in love with was a monster, but I have yet to be truly cruel to her.
"Not a monster," I murmured in quiet denial.