Chapter 143

SEBASTIAN

“Whatever fucking hold you think you have on me to hurt the person I love… ends right now.”

I meant every damn word in that fucking statement.

Loren flinched like the words physically hit her. For a moment, she just stared, wide-eyed, trembling.

That was the exact reaction I wanted her to have. I needed her to take me seriously because I’m fucking serious.

Then something inside her snapped.

“You can’t do this to me,” she whispered, voice cracking. “Not after everything I’ve done for you. Everything I gave up.”

I exhaled sharply. “Loren…”

“No, don’t you dare,” she spat, stepping closer. “I stood by you when you had NOTHING. When this place was nothing but an abandoned skeleton of a building. I worked day and night beside you. I helped you build the restaurant from SCRATCH, Sebastian!”

Her voice rose, echoing off the walls.

She might be right with most of the words said, but I still wanted to correct the few errors