I swallowed hard, as I watched hatred and fury yed a tug of war in her eyes. "Lover huh." Emery repeated the words, bitterness shone on her eyes. Slowly, she made her way towards my direction with her jaw clenched and fist turned into a ball in her side.


    If looks could kill, I had fallen on the floor, bleeding to my death while she red at me as though her eyes were made of daggers.


    "Emery, let me exin… please… It''s not Alexandria''s fault. It''s entirely my fault. " Clifford said. The shock he felt finally subsided. Almost immediately, he flung himself in between me and Emery in an attempt to stop the situation from escting before one of us ends up with an injury.


    "It takes two to tango so shut up. We will dealter, Clifford. For now Alexandria and I have to settle something." Emery told him firmly, there was a detectable threat in her words as she said it out loud. The palpable warning he heard on her tone made him hesitant for a bit but when he recovered Clifford tried to hold Emery but she pushed him away rather forcefully.


    "It seems my husband wasn''t enough for you, that''s why you are taking my new lover as well." She whirled towards my direction, her eyes glittered with distaste. " I turned a blind when you dallied with my husband but now that you tried to take my new lover as well, I can''t forgive you. Alexandria. "


    Emery raised her hand and itnded hard on my cheeks. The p left a red mark on my pale skin. The physical blow made my cheeks numb and yet I didn''t do anything to shield myself, a part of me berrates me and it won''t stop saying that I deserved it.


    "Painful right? But the pain you feel now was a speck of dustpared to the pain you caused me when you took my husband away from my children."


    There was a sudden jolt of pain inside my chest when she said the word children. To think that I was able to steal someone''s father and turned him into my lover filled me with self-loathing and disgust.


    I clenched my fist into my side and bit my lower lips while keeping my tears at bay. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction and now I have to pay the price of my viinous deeds in the past. If it would help lessen the burden in her chest then I would allow her to hit me.


    Clifford yanked Emery''s hands and pulled her away from me but she fought like a wildcat. She slipped out of his hold and jumped at me, pulling my hair hard until I fell on the floor. My lips hit the ss table and the metallic taste of blood drifted to my tongue.


    The physical and mental pain was too much for me to handle, I felt tears burning my eyes.


    Emery was screaming at the top of her lungs as Clifford pulled her away rather forcefully and dragged her to the corner of the room where she could not reach me.


    I tried to pull myself together but it seems my strength wasn''t enough to move my feet, so I remained slumped on the carpeted floor with lips bleeding


    Tears start to fall from my cheeks as I think of my current hopeless situation, wondering how many more people I had ruined. I asked myself at the same time if it wasn''t toote to salvage those lives.


    Hurried footsteps sounded in the hall. Unceremoniously, the door suddenly flung open.


    "Get out." Lucas voice thundered inside the room.


    I flinched in shock, hearing his voice for the first time. I wasn''t sure if he was yelling at me.


    Footsteps scurried to the door. Then Emery''s screaming faded to the distance. A few secondster the door clicked close.


    Lucas''s steps made no sound as he crossed the distance between us. A few secondster he was crouched in front of me before I even knew it.


    He said nothing. Allowing the silence to rule between us.


    My head remained bowed on the floor, too afraid to meet his gaze and discover he was furious about the scene inside his very own property.


    Slowly he lifted my face up. His thumb wiped the blood on my lower lips. He was frowning so badly that his eyebrows almost merged into a single line.


    "I-I''m so sorry Lucas…" The words flew out of my lips in a barely audible whisper. Tears blurred my eyes. I tried to stop myself from crying but I just couldn''t.


    Lucas didn''t ridicule me nor uttered an insulting word which I thought he would do. Instead he lifted me from the floor and carried me to his bedroom without a word.


    I buried my face into his chest and shut my eyes tightly until the tears stopped flowing. He gentlyid me on the bed and left me there for a short while. When he returned he was holding a damp towel.


    He sat beside me on the bed, too close that his musky sweet scent lingered on my nostrils.


    My eyes remained glued to the floor so he held my chin up until my eyes were looking at his own.


    Still he said nothing. He lifted the damp towel and wiped the blood on my swollen lips. It was painful but not as much as painful from the humiliation I suffered under Emery''s hands.


    "I will warn Thompson not to take any visitors without my approval. I don''t want the same incident today to get repeated in the future." He said the words in a calm manner. There was no sign that he was angry at me. I wonder if I should be worried or thankful by hisck of reaction.


    I nodded my head in response but I didn''t say a word.


    He wiped the tears from the corner of my eyes.


    How could he be so good to me even after everything I''ve done. I don''t deserve a speck of his kindness.