Chapter 57: No More Secrets

Eleonore’s POV

“We should have—I should have told you everything, from the beginning.”

Those were Rhett’s next words to me. After we had stood there for some time in silence, he finally lifted his head to look at me. I was taken aback by the look in his eyes. It was so hard and hurt. I had never seen him look like that before. A part of me was guilty, thinking I was the reason for it.

I shook my head at him as I reached my hand out. ‘You couldn’t have known I knew,’ I told him. ‘You didn’t owe me any explanation.’

“But I did!” Rhett exclaimed as he stood up and away from me. “I should have told you. Because of who you are to me, you deserved the truth from the beginning.”

He turned around to face me as he admitted this, just in time to see my face morph into shock at his words. Because of who I am to him? Did he… like me from the very beginning?