Chapter 75. I Can’t Do That to You

Third-Person POV

Adrian looked at Miranda and was touched. The world was cruel. Life was not fair at all, he thought.

Fate was cruel. The mate he loved and wanted desperately didn’t want him anymore and with good cause’ and the one he could never love and want the way she would have wanted him to, was insanely in love with him and seemed to need him desperately, to the extent of wanting to go into a loveless relationship with him, putting herself at a disadvantage with the compromise she was willing to make.

“Have you not been told that it is dangerous being in a relationship where your feelings is not reciprocated?” he asked, touching her cheek, gently and she shut her eyes, relishing his touch. “And haven’t you heard what it caused to Iris when we were married?”

“I am willing to take my chances!” she replied, her voice husky, as she lifted her hand to hold his as he touched her face.

“But I cannot do that to you, Miranda,” he said, taking his h