Liana:
I walked around for a while, lost in my thoughts as I tried to find a reason behind Dominic’s reactions toward me.
The way he held me in his arms, the way I weakened, the pain that I let out. I never was the type to open up to anyone, to know that I allowed that to happen, I knew that something was terribly wrong with me. It was against my nature to do so. I didn’t understand why I allowed it to happen to myself.
“What are you doing to yourself, Liana?” I muttered, voicing out my pain. “You let your guard down when you and your best friend argued. What if he holds it against you? What if he starts planning things with Cosimo again? What if he thinks that you are acting?”
The night of him speaking to his beta in his office played in my head. His words, which cut through me like a
