Chapter 74

Eve had locked herself away in the house for days.

She didn’t have the strength to scrape herself off her bedroom floor but she knew if she walked out of the house she would be driving back to Roman. She wanted to know why. Why he’d tricked her again, why he couldn’t love her.

The weight of his betrayal paralyzed her. Wrecked her. She’d never known that her heart could hurt so much and affect her ability to do anything else. Roman had been her air, and now he was gone.

He had been so gentle, so perfect that she had fallen deeper in love with him. She didn’t think she could pick herself back up this time.

When she was all cried out, she dragged herself to the bathroom and sat under the shower spray and every single moment she had spent with Roman played in her mind like a movie. The times before she had walked out when she’d had a contract but he had still come and made her feel like the centre of his world one day a week. When he had made love to her and taug