Chapter 99

His outburst triggers one of my own, igniting so much inside me that my simmer pops, and my boiling pot explodes in his face. I snap right back in sheer exasperation at how dense and thick-skulled he can be.

“Who says I don’t love you, you complete fucking idiot of a man?” It’s yelled hysterically, tearfully, stubbornly, feeling exposed and vulnerable but so exasperated that he cannot see the feelings behind all my insecurities and actions.

He’s walking away because he thinks my actions are down to never feeling trust or love for him. They are, in fact, the exact opposite. He rips me up and chews me to shreds because he has always owned my soul. I couldn’t love him more than this if I tried, and nothing he has ever done had managed to kill the way I feel about him, even when I wanted so badly to hate him.

I’m seething mad that he is so blind to it and stupid sometimes. Walking away because he thinks I’m rebelling instead of realising I’m afraid to let him see how w