Betrayed By Miss Wrong, Claimed By Mr Right

e dripping with scorn. "Play the hero? Make me see you in a d

crous, but her eyes hel

expression of grave concern

tired. "That's insane, Izzy. I had

ck for manipulation, had twisted something mino

as desperate, unsta

ward, his voice sm

ion is a difficult thing. But to stoop to s

dear? The lengths some will go t

e Izzy's bias, to make the false narrative s

certainty, that any explana

convinced. She wa

r. Ethan was the discarded past, an

would be interprete

ng, her voice ringing with the absolu

is my future. Any further attempts by you to interfere, to cling to what'

You are nothing to me now but a re

e once thought he loved, now so com

ation settled ove

evoid of emotion. "Punish me again

his utter surrender. There was nothing l

his lack of fight, then her anger flar

"You're not worth the eff

ornament. A relic of a past connection. Your status, your

crowd, who had been watc

. "Captain Carter holds no special place. He is a g

cophants and goss

r had truly fallen from grace. He

, already battered,

him was a form of revenge for his perceive

of her power, and Ju

to Julian, her express

ed. "Come, my love. Let's not allow t

ge, and Julian, at Izzy's urging, began to

play of affection and mutual admir

ements, gazed at him with adorat

tional torture, a fin

tanding alone, the subject o

strange calm

he, but the raw, bleeding wound of

e had already given up on her,

ulian, for the crowd. It no lon

imself, a quiet, int

a Hayes, the hope he

lty, her blindness, he

eary finality, and a growing resol

t couldn't co