Caesar’s POV
Yes, I know she used me, and maybe I said things that hurt her, but that was the only way to keep her close without revealing just how desperately I needed her to stay. If she ever knew the truth, that I’m the one who’s desperate, she’d run. Or worse, she’d use it against me, so I gave her a reason to stay, even if it meant becoming the villain in her story. Better the monster she can’t walk away from than the man she could pity.
Humiliating Neven… now that’s something I wouldn’t mind getting involved in. Especially with the woman he once swore he loved, the same woman he betrayed because he couldn’t keep his zipper closed. Pathetic. He never knew how to handle someone like her: soft yet fierce, delicate yet unbreakably strong, impossibly beautiful in a way that made him loo
