Defiant Surrender

It was an order.

There was no room for negotiation or discussion.

No matter how hard I try, she won't accept me again. Does she truly want to draw a line between us so badly? So, she's genuinely determined to become strangers with me for the rest of our lives?

Kingston's dark eyes welled up with tears as his eyelashes trembled slightly.

His eyes had long since lost the ferocity and hostility that