Chapter 620
My knees felt weak, “I didn’t…”
“You didn’t think?” his voice sharpened, “That seems to be your specialty lately. I almost buried Hazel tonight because of you! Do you understand that?”
My voice shook so badly I barely heard it, “What happened?”
He stared at me for several seconds, “When nobody could find you… she broke. She had a heart attack.
I felt something inside my chest crack, the hallway tilted again, “No…” I whispered, “No…”
Every horrible sentence I’d heard through that study door came rushing back all at once.
“…Gianna needs someone patient enough…”
“…You’ll slow yourself down…”
“…One day you’ll resent it…”
My stomach twisted so violently I thought I would be sick.
Salvatore took another step closer, “You’ve turned this family upside down in one night.”
My throat burned, “I never meant…’
“I don’t care what you meant but Hazel doesn’t need this right now!”
Tears rolled down my face.
“What do you want me to do? You want me to go in there and say, ‘Hazel, the daughter you loved more than anything was too busy sneaking around with my son to think about what her disappearance would do to you?””
“No…” I shook my head, “I didn’t know…”
“You never do.”
His answer came immediately.
“You never think about anyone except what you want.”
My chest hurt.
There wasn’t a single bit of warmth left in his voice.
“What exactly do you think people call a woman who sleeps with her stepbrother behind her mother’s back?”
The word came next, softly, almost cruelly.
“A whore.”
I flinched so hard my shoulder hit the wall, “No…”
“You want to be known as my respectable daughter or is being his bed warmer enough for you?”
My ears rang, tears fell faster, “I didn’t mean…”
He leaned closer to me, “If Hazel finds out…..she won’t survive it.”
I stared at him, “No…”
“The doctors already told us her heart is weak. One more serious shock…” he looked toward her bedroom, “And it could kill her. You want that?” he asked it so calmly, “You want your mother to die knowing the daughter she raised was sleeping with her own stepbrother?”
I couldn’t breathe, “N-No…”


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