“How could you? No. I don’t believe this. You can’t do that. There must be a reason behind that, right? There was a valid reason. You can’t do that to your own father—”

“I said stop!”

I flinched at his thunderous roar. My horrified gaze met his flaming one.

“Fucking stop it already! I’ve had enough! Can’t you get one fucking thing in your head that I don’t want to talk about it?” he hissed. “I don’t owe you anything. I don’t need to tell you every fucking thing about my life. Stay the hell out of my past! And leave me alone!”

Turning away, he stormed out of the room, to his bedroom.

My hands curled into balls. My blood boiled in my veins. I wouldn’t let him have his way tonight. Not after everything he did.

Soon, my legs followed him to the bedroom.

“No! I won’t leave you alone until you tell me everything! I won’t let you hurt yourself every night because you like to keep everything bottled up. I won’t let you behave like this with me just because you don’t want to share anything with me! And I’ll definitely not let you accuse me of cheating out of jealousy because you fear you will lose me if I know about your past!” I held my ground. “You have to tell me! I have every right to know—”

“You have no right to know anything! You’re not my fucking wife that I need to explain everything to you!” he snapped.

My breath caught in my throat. A pain shot through my heart at his words.

I had no right? No right?

My lower lip trembled, but I was quick to bite it still. I could feel something breaking inside me.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I should know my boundaries. Silly me, I thought I meant something to you,” I whispered, my treacherous eyes blurred with tears no matter how much I tried to mask my feelings.

His gaze snapped to me. Guilt washed over his face as again realization of his words set in. The pain he caused me reflected in the windows of his soul. His gray eyes.

“Rosebud…” he gulped. Cupping my face, he made me look up at him. “I’m sorry, baby. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean that. You mean the world to me. You’re the reason I’m alive…”

I shook my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. “You can’t just say sorry and say you didn’t mean it after you literally accused me of cheating on you and then tell me I don’t mean anything to you.”

His words hurt like a bitch. I knew he was disturbed, but he couldn’t just spit venom at me like that.