Chapter 47

Alex’s POV
Her words hit me deeply but I refused to let it show.
“So maybe I didn’t care about her at first because I only saw her as a possible threat to my family that I needed to contain. Maybe I prejudged her before I gave her any chance to show me who she really was. But is it so wrong to start caring now that I know everything she went through because of me? And let me make it pretty clear that I would have never allowed her uncle to torture her just for the sake of asserting peace had I known his intentions when I asked him to get her agreement. What he had done was off limits. I want to make it up to her from now on and if you’re truly her best friend, then you need to help her by helping me understand her reasons”