Chapter 168 Bumping With...
And more than that... Addison couldn’t, for a second, believe that nothing happened between Zion and Claire. Weren’t they already entangled while she was still there?
That’s what made it so hard to let herself draw closer to him again, let alone let her children know the man who helped create them.
Because just imagining someone else exploring Zion’s body, touching him where only she once did... it felt like a storm tearing through her chest, like crashing waves churning violently in her stomach.
In short, she hated it.
She hated that while she was breaking apart, struggling, suffering, doing everything in her power to be both mother and father to their twins, her ex-mate, now, her fated mate, had been out there screwing someone else.
And what made it worse... were his words. Words that never stopped echoing in her mind, poisoning her every memory of him:
"I’ll let you live a life of loneliness. I’ll make sure you’re tormented, feel the pain of having a mate who’s disgusted by you, who would rather fuck someone else than touch your sorry ass. Until the day you die, you’ll suffer. I’ll make you wish you had died that day."
Those words carved scars too deep to forget. They were why it was so hard for Addison to accept Zion now. Why, even with his remorse and tenderness, she couldn’t help but question his motives. Was he truly sorry for what he’d done? Or was he only acting this way now because he’d discovered she was the princess?
Addison never liked assuming the worst in people. But when it came to Zion, she didn’t want to see the good in him.
Because she was afraid, afraid that the moment she let her guard down, the moment she believed he’d changed... she’d forgive him too easily. Accept him too quickly.
And then what?