Chapter 187. Unjustifiable Explanations

Ellie's POV

And that had to be the precise day we met? What a perfectly cliched encounter! Fate is a big joke sometimes, you know. I mean, come on!

"The bitch you always talk about? I am that bitch. You hate me. You despise me, just like I do," I say, looking into his grinning, dark orbs.

He shakes his head countless times. "I hated my ghost fiance, but everything changed when I met you, Ellie. My perception of her altered when I knew who you really were. My whole opinion of this arranged marriage changed when I knew you."

"But you kept it a secret from me all this while,” I brat out with so much rage, peeking up at his eyes. “You had a thousand opportunities to tell me the truth, but you chose to keep me in the dark. And now you stand before me right now, expecting that I will believe you? After all we had, Damian, just this little truth, you couldn’t open up to me? Do you know how I feel right now?" My cracky voice is so low as I speak, a h