Chapter 196

The night had settled deep over the manor when Dante finally relented to my gentle insistence.

“You can’t keep carrying this silence as if it will protect me,” I told him earlier, when we stood together in the garden. “If the world whispers about your family, then let me hear the truth from you. From your lips. Not theirs.”

He had gone still, his dark eyes shadowed, before he answered with a sigh