Chapter 0046

RICARDO

One week later.

I fucked up, and I hated myself for it.

In a fit of rage, in those minutes when I felt nothing but betrayal, I had done things which I was too ashamed of.

The memories of the strained look in those mesmerizing orbs of hers, the tears which had run free across her beautiful face, and her trembling voice when she pleaded her innocence, had been taunting my soul ever since.

How could I have ever done that to the woman I claimed to love?

How could I have ever made such a hasty conclusion and acted as stupidly as I did?

These questions had been a torment to my mind for seven days, causing me to wallow in the misery of my mistakes.

I knew it was my moment of confusion, or rage, still, I took it a little too far.

"Brother, again she turned them down." Alex had said the instant he barged into my office.