Fragile Beginnings

Beta Darius’s POV

Knowing how difficult it would be for Roxanne to settle in, I never expected things to worsen until we reached the bedroom.

"I feel out of place. I don't belong here," she self-deprecatingly said, and my heart sank with each word. How could cruel people mentally torture someone into believing such things about themselves?

It was disheartening, but as I spent more time with her, I