Chapter 152

• Crippled by Rhode’s loss, stunned by Darian’s decision, she had refused to even look at Romanos. If she didn’t love him, if she didn’t hug him as her arms sometimes ached to, if she didn’t pin all her love on her kind grandfather, who told her thrilling tales about a mother she had never known, she wouldn’t have to live through another loss.
• If she didn’t love him, there would be no pain when he was gone. Even when Romanos had recovered from his heart attack, she had refused to see him.
• Darian was right. She had truly become selfish. A coward who cared about nothing but protecting herself from pain.