The contract that freed her
She had a point — not because I would ever compare Luciano to Adrian, but because he was also a man.
Adrian had once shown me how cruel it could be to trust someone blindly, and even then I had made excuses for him until I myself ran out of excuses to make up for him. Men were cruel — cruel creatures that took and never gave. They would drain the last bit of your love and then ridicule you for falling in love with them.
I was fourteen when I first realized their cruelty, and then twenty when I was reminded just how dark and bottomless their hearts could be. You would keep falling without any real end once you took on their cruelty, because their way of manipulating you would make the misery