CONTRACT OF FATE
“I badly wanted their attention but no matter how much I tried, they never cared so I stopped trying to get their attention. O focused on being what they wanted, cold, perfect, controlled. It was the only way to live at that point.”
“Is that why you treat people like you can dispose them at any time?”
He didn't flinch.
“I don't trust love,” he said. “ I never have. The only thing love ever gave me was pain.”
I watched him, his walls were down and for the first time, I saw him, not the cold CEO, not the cold husband or the cold Alexander I was used to, but the broken body behind the mask who had gone through a lot.
He took a breath.
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