Chapter 1068:

Before she could finish, Eric’s hold on her chin grew fierce, making her flinch in pain.

“Don’t dress it up so prettily! Be straight with me! You’re ready to risk Joy’s safety and insist on leaving me—is it because of my background? Because I’m no longer a Flynn?”

Tears welled in Eric’s shadowed eyes, his voice quivering with anguish. “Is it because I’m a fraud in your eyes, someone you now deem unworthy?”

His words roared with despair and fragility.

Hadley’s brow furrowed as Eric’s pain lay bare before her.

If admitting it would finally make him let go, perhaps it was worth it.

She drew a deep breath and nodded. “Yes, that’s it.”

The words had barely escaped when Hadley gasped in agony, her jaw throbbing as if fractured under Eric’s grasp.

His gaze

He…

How could you betray me like

notion that she stood apart from others, that she wouldn’t despise him and walk away because he wasn’t really

How mistaken he was!

“Go,” he whispered,

if she

go!” Eric’s voice thundered as he raised his head,

warm and wet, now gleamed with

had seen in Eric’s eyes moments ago were merely

her bag tightly, she turned and

her hand touched the door handle, an unbidden urge made her pause and

words, she

a

table, sending the red diamond ring skittering

The anguish clawed at

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