CHAPTER 122
Isabella looked into his eyes, searching for the lie, but all she found was a devastating sincerity.
She saw the way he was standing, shaking slightly in front of her because he was terrified of a few words.
She wanted to scream. She wanted to demand the truth. But as she looked at the exhaustion lining his face, she realized that pushing him further might actually break them more
"One day," she whispered, her voice thick with a mix of anger and defeat. "One day, Lucian, you're going to have to stop lying to me. Because the silence is starting to hurt more than whatever the truth is."
Isabella didn't wait for him to respond. She didn't want to see the flicker of pain in his eyes or the way his jaw would tighten with yet another unspoken secret.
