Page 67 of War of Her Heart

Calum and I stood in silence as we both knew there was no way out of this.

“I know about you two,” she said as she shot a look of disgust between the two of us.

“What about us?” Calum asked.

“You two have been together for years.”

My eyes widened, but I kept silent. I had no way out of this, and I knew in the end it would be me who took the blame and punishment.

“Nathara—” Calum said, walking towards her.

She took a step away from him, causing him to come to a halt. “Don’t try to talk your way out of this. Are you in love with her?”

“Of course I’m not in love with her. She is nothing but a fuck.”

That hurt. I knew it wasn’t true, and he was trying to get me out of this situation. But it still hurt.

Calum grabbed her hands in his as he said, “I’m in love with you. I am going to spend my life with you. Violet means nothing to me. She never has.”

“Prove it,” she said as she stared back at him.

He paused for a moment. “How?”

A wicked grin came across her face. “Make love to me.”

His eyes shifted towards me, and I saw a glimmer of remorse before they shifted back to her. He had no choice. The one thing he promised he wouldn’t do. The one thing that would shatter my heart into a million pieces.

“Fine. Let’s go,” he said, wrapping his arm around her.

“No—I want to do it here,” she said as she pushed his arm off of her. “You may not care about her, but I can tell by the way she looks at you that she cares about you. So I want her to watch.”

I shook my head, trying my hardest to hold back the tears. I knew there was a possibility that this would happen one day, especially knowing now that his chances out of this marriage grew slimmer by the day.

But this—having to watch—this was something I was not sure I could ever recover from.

“There’s no need for that. I think she understands,” Calum said as he looked at me again.

“I could have her killed for treason. So it’s this or death.”

I looked at Calum, hoping he could save me from this, but he was at a loss for words. There was no way out. He looked back at Nathara and began unbuttoning his shirt.

My eyes filled with tears. I squeezed them shut and tried to picture something—anything else.

“No, keep your eyes open,” Nathara said. I opened my eyes to see her smiling at me. “I don’t want you to miss this.”

I stood there, staring them down and watching them take each other’s clothes off. Every chance Calum got, he would look at me and mouth, “I’m sorry.”

They were completely naked now and all that sadness I felt was turning into rage. I wanted to rip her head off of her body.

Nathara grabbed his face and started kissing him before pulling him onto the bed with her.

All of a sudden, my eyesight started to darken, but I knew my eyes were open. I never closed them. My hearing, too, began to go away.What was happening?I couldn’t see or hear anything that was going on. Just before I truly panicked, I heardhim.

Stay calm and don’t move, love. You’re still looking at that disgusting atrocity, but you’re not going to see it.

Sebastian. He was in my ear talking to me. He was protecting me. Like he always had.

I hesitated for a moment because my father had always told me to keep my mind guarded, especially around someone who had power like Sebastian, but I let my walls down to let him in so I could communicate back to him.

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