Begging For Your Love, But You're Still Chasing Her

f secrets, the unspoken words that had been buried for far too long, that now hung between them. Each step they took felt like a step further into a la

etter in her hand. The wax seal, so simple and yet so ominous, had set her mind racing. It was strange, unnerving, the way that piece of paper could carry so much weight, so m

uring that no one-especially Rafael-could discover the depths of her feelings, the desperate, overwhelming need for him. But now, someone had

storm that was slowly building. His sharp gaze swept across the room before landing on her. She knew he could see the tens

a moment, before the hardened edge returned. He had known something was off ever since their wedding night, but he couldn't qu

disastrous. If Rafael found out about her deep, almost obsessive feelings for him-if he understood just how far she was willing to go to make him hers-there would

ed toward her. And for a moment, she considered telling him everything. To let him in, to make him understand. She had already given up so much for this marr

lt heavy, laden with emotion. "I know what I want, Rafael. I know who I want. But sometime

mpany. But now, seeing the anguish in her eyes, he realized just how much of a fool he had been. He had never once stopped to consider her needs,

his life with precision. But now, with her standing in front of him, vulnerable and raw, he felt completely out of his depth. "But you've got to under

on. He didn't love her. He hadn't even considered the possibility of love. It had never been about their conne

t was blooming inside her. "Then why are we even doing this?" she asked, her voi

ey had been married, he didn't have an answer. His life had been carefully planned, meticulously laid out with no room for surprises, no room for

the one that had clearly shaken her to her core. His m

reveal it to him just yet, but something inside her urged her to be honest, to come

"Someone knows. Someone knows what I've been hiding, what

es of concern deepening on his

I don't think it's good. Whoever this is, they have

no turning back now. The storm she had been so desperately trying t

and painful truths. He could feel the pull between them, the magnetic force that had been simmering

shing down, and neither of them