Chapter 168: You know what...
"You know, the moment you came back, I really thought you were going to be better. I was scared of you finding out about the baby because I didn’t want my heart to break. I didn’t want to feel like I was making the wrong decision." She paused, as if gathering her thoughts, before continuing. "A few months ago, I couldn’t help but wonder... had I ever made the right decision by deciding to sleep with you? The time we both consummated..."
With a fierce determination etched onto her face, Angel’s fingers dug into the fabric of Tryson’s collar, the knuckles white against the material as her unwavering gaze locked onto his eyes, searching for any flicker of remorse or deception.
She had grabbed him once again this time, looking fearless.
The possessive clench of her hand was a stark, undeniable message, a silent promise of the emotional storm about to break, a tempest that had been gathering force within her since the crushing moment she had finally pieced together the horrifying truth of who had stolen her mother away.
Her voice, though trembling slightly with suppressed fury, cut through the tense air.
"You know, Tryson, there’s a particular kind of agonizing betrayal that cuts a woman to her core, the kind where she pours her trust, her very belief, into someone, only to have that person shatter into the monstrous figure of her worst nightmare. Doesn’t the weight of that realization even begin to trouble your conscience?"
Tryson could only offer a defeated silence, his gaze falling to the floor as a wave of profound shame washed over him, making him feel utterly unworthy of meeting the fiery intensity in her eyes.
He understood, with a sinking feeling, that flimsy excuses would never bridge the chasm of her pain; he had to brace himself for the full, raw force of her anger.
"Still choosing silence, are you?" Angel pressed, her voice laced with a raw urgency. "I need to know, Tryson. What vile motive, what twisted justification could have driven the person responsible for tearing my mother from this world to commit such an unspeakable act?"