Chapter 180: Heart-Wrenching Detachment
(Arata)
Hurt crawled into my heart at his tone and clutched it so tightly that I could feel it would burst.
"Watch your tone, I am not one of your side-pieces whom you can thrash." I glared at him. Anger and disappointment boiled into my chest and never before felt agony crawled into my soul.
Karsten leaned against the table with his long legs crossed at the ankles, his hands holding the edges so tightly that his knuckles had fully bleached.
One would think he would show restraint, but it seemed like he was here to totally shatter me.
"I didn’t know you could be so dumb as to believe the words of someone else." My eyes widened at the accusation while he simply said.
"Yes, I know someone spoke to you at the event. I don’t know who but I will soon find out." His voice was flat, devoid of any emotions he had begun to carry in the last three months.
The Karsten I had come to know, cherish and love had completely evaporated. He could be rude at times but never to this level. Considering he was entirely at fault here and yet was trying to fix blame on me.
"No, actually, I was dumb enough to trust someone like you," I retorted, trying to keep myself as far away from this man as possible. He was scaring my soul, leaving imprints that were going to last a lifetime.
Why was he hell-bent on hurting me?
No emotions passed over his face like they had previously when I confronted him in the changing room. This version of him had always scared me, and I had always dreaded facing him like that. But here we were.