Angry

Leona POV

James' face twists in fury, his lips curling into a sneer as he spits out his words like venom.

"What the fuck?" His voice is low at first, like a fuse just waiting to ignite. His nostrils flare, and his eyes darken with rage.

"I'm pathetic? Me?!" He lets out a humorless laugh, shaking his head as if I'm the one who's lost my mind. "Ha! Won't you look in the mirror, Leona fucking Caldwell—fucking an Orion has made you delusional."

And there it is.

The mask finally slips.

The carefully constructed facade of the ever-charming James Sterling shatters, revealing the ugly, insecure man beneath. His true nature, the one I spent years enduring, rears its head—just like it always did towards the end of our marriage.

Back then, he'd say things like this and apologize the next morning with cheap flowers and hollow words. I'd believed him once.

Never again.