Page 39 of Beauty and her Billionaire Beast

“Okay Iapologize.”

“Do you believe it ornot?”

“You said it was true, Knox. What am I supposed tothink?”

His jaw ticks, and the vein at his temple is pronounced, pounding hard. “You’re supposed to trust your gut, and if you can’t do that, you’re supposed totrust me. Trustus.”

“I did! I trusted us. I believed in us. So hard. But you let ten years pass, Knox. That broke me. All that time, I didn’t know what tothink.”

“No one can turn back time. I can’t change what Idid.”

I pound against the spot over my heart. “But you’re asking me to change the broken pieces left in here. The pieces that neverhealed.”

“I don’t know…I’m sorry you feel that way. Look, I’ve got to get back to my grandfather now. He doesn’t have muchtime.”

“What?”

“You would’ve found out if you stuck around as planned. He’s terminal. We maybe have a few months with him. So, if you’re intent on believing I only took you there to follow his wishes or whatever, at least understand it was for a good reason. Even if it isn’t at allwhy.”

“I’m…I didn’tknow…”

“I have to go now,” he mutters, and presses the button to roll up my window. His hand covers the gear shift, and without a parting glance, he drivesaway.

Shit.

What did I justdo?