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Chapter 512 - 512/I FORGIVE YOU

Chapter 512

Julie's point of view

"I forgive you."

To this day, I have no idea how those three words managed to tear free from my throat. I hadn't planned them, hadn't rehearsed them, and certainly hadn't intended to utter them when I pushed open the doors of this villa. Yet there they were, falling from my lips in a soft, level register entirely divorced from the blazing rage I had carried through the door.

I watched his entire face shatter. His eyes dilated in sheer, unadulterated disbelief, his rigid jawline trembling violently as something ancient and hardened broke behind his rough features. He didn't speak. He simply crossed the floor toward me with agonizing slowness, treading as though terrified the earth beneath his boots might crumble, until he halted inches away.

"May I...?"

I didn't offer a verbal reply. I simply held my ground.

He reached out, his long arms curving forward to enclose me in an embrace.

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