Chapter 514: A NIGHT FOR THEMSELVES (2)
"You left me because I slept with another woman..." Will said in a whisper, his face mirrored the horror he felt. His eyes dilated in fear and the sight of him squeezed Hanna’s heart.
"Oh, Will..." Hanna wanted to blurt out that she knew what happened to him and that it was not his fault, but she was afraid he would spiral even further. After all, he guarded his secret so tightly and didn’t let anyone know about it, not even the Gamma, while she could say the two of them were so close. "You will never do that..."
Will grabbed both of her hands and squeezed them tightly. "What if?"
"Will..." You didn’t sleep with another woman, you had been assaulted and that was not your fault. That was what Hanna wanted to say, only she couldn’t comprehend how Will couldn’t see the event in that same light. "Maybe... maybe you didn’t sleep with the other woman... maybe she forced herself on you..."
Hanna said that very carefully, her heart beat so loudly against her chest, which hurt so badly, especially when she saw the horror in his eyes condense even more. Hanna squeezed his hands, in her desperate attempt to get him back to her, before he slid even deeper into his dark thoughts.
"You will never do that to me, Will. You are not a person like that. That woman must have forced herself on you."
Will pulled his hands out of her grip and Hanna felt this pang in her heart. She felt they didn’t make any progress.
"I am a free man. I am not a slave. No one should have been able to force themselves on me."
And there, Hanna got the answer she wanted. That was how Will idealized a free person, once they could get away from the slavery and as a man, unless they were slaves, who must follow their master’s orders, there was no way a woman would be able to force themselves on him.
He was a warrior after all. He could fight any woman.
"Will..." Hanna tried to rack her brain thinking how to salvage the situation because she could see how Will tried to withdraw from her even more. "Even if that happened and you didn’t mean it that way... we can still work things out. As long as you promise not to hide anything from me."