Chapter 33

Santiago had no words to say to her question. He stared blankly into her expecting ones, racking his brain for the right words to say without hurting her again.

It’s been a pretty rough couple of weeks for them all. She finding out about his involvement in taking over her father’s company and the pain it caused her family.

Lisa, coming out of nowhere to pin a pregnancy on him.

Him trying to find out what Darken and his parents were planning before he took over the companies from them.

This accident.

A lot of things just keep brewing in his mind, and he thinks it will drive him nuts.

He slipped his hands under her shirt so they stuck to her skin like a leech. His fingers held her waist firmly and squeezed a bit, then released it slowly.

“I don’t know how to say this to you without you getting hurt,” he whispered, still maintaining eye contact with her.

Joan gulped, “Just tell me,” her hands flattened on his chest.

He br