Chapter 57

Eleanor POV

My heart raced as I heard Killian knocking on my bedroom door.

The fear that I had that he would still be angry with me was one that I wasn’t going to deny. I wouldn’t be able to if I tried. 

I got up from bed just as he opened the door, clearly knowing that I wasn’t planning on answering. My chest ached and my heart raced as I found myself thinking of how things were between me and Elton. I couldn’t help it, but the fact that I was comparing the two of them was not something that I could deny.

The man would often snap at me before entering my room later on the same evening to ‘punish’ me the way that he saw fit. And that was something that I was always afraid of.

Killian walked toward me, and I looked up at him, forcing myself to process that it was Killian and that