After that came his tearful apology, his threats to kill himself if I left. And after that came my surrender, my foolish belief that he had changed.
Bitterness coated my tongue like ash. I forced a hollow smile, my voice so hoarse it barely sounded human.
"Anthony, Victoria Mason will never shake that label. Not in this lifetime. What the two of you have will always disgust people."
"And you don't get to mention my baby. Ever."
"Nora, shut your mouth!"
Anthony's brows twisted into a hard knot as he barked the words. His eyes were sheets of ice, and in them there was not a single trace of guilt.
"This is between you and me. It has nothing to do with Victoria."
He lowered his voice, looking down at me with naked threat in his eyes.
"You've been working yourself to the bone all these years just to pay for your foster mother's heart surgery, haven't you?"
"I hear they've already found a matching donor?"
My heart slammed to a stop. Every drop of blood in my body seemed to freeze solid.