Chapter 52 —There's nothing between us

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Aylin felt the weight of her own words as soon as she uttered them.

She heard them hanging in the air between them like a sentence, like a taut string about to snap.

Her pulse pounded furiously in her throat. She had no idea where she had found the courage to say it, nor was she even sure she had thought it before uttering it.

But there they were, those damn words.

“If I marry you... will he stop hating you?”

God... what had she just done? She felt her chest tighten. She couldn't take her eyes off Roman, off his closed expression, off the way his gaze darkened with something she couldn't decipher. It wasn't anger, it wasn't mockery, it wasn't triumph.

It was something deeper. Something that somehow made her feel more vulnerable than ever.

She clenched her hands at her sides, as if that would help her hold on to her own determination.

Was she going crazy? She knew exactly what she was doing.

From the moment she heard Sasha scream, she kne