Tainted Love
Instead, he stood there, rigid and unmoving.
Bella realized her mistake and let go of him, her face flushed with embarrassment. "I'm so sorry," she said, her voice trembling.
"It's okay," Mateo said, his voice gentle. "I know you're grateful.
Mateo had always known that Moreno cared for Bella, but he was too damaged and traumatized to ever admit it to himself. He saw love as a weakness, and he refused to allow himself to be vulnerable.
Instead, Moreno chose to hurt Bella and project his own pain onto her. It was a twisted way of dealing with his inner turmoil, but it was all he knew how to do. And so, he continued to torture the woman he secretly loved, lost in his own self-loathing and hatr
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