Chapter 194

194 A Deal With The Devil

Martha

I stayed locked in my room for three days.

No one came. Not Vander.

That’s when it hit me-this wasn’t temporary. This wasn’t anger cooling off. He was done. For real this time.

I kept hoping he’d check on me. Just once. Open the door. Say something. But the silence was louder than any fight we’d ever had. It roared inside my chest until I hated myself for needing him so badly.

I should’ve just stayed in Natasha’s shadow. Lived quietly in the background. However painful that would’ve been, Vander wasn’t beating me. He wasn’t pimping me out like Alaric. He gave me a name, a home, respect. I should’ve loved Lucian like my own and kept the peace.