Chapter 12: Solace
Roma's POV
Why did I tell Aria about my father?
Remorse, the voice in my head whispered. You felt sorry for her. And guilty.
I had not felt so angry in such a long time. Not even when she snuck into the West wing and faced the beast in me had I been this upset.
But as I bought anything and everything in the drug store that could help with bruises, it was all I could do to keep from lashing out at something as I replayed that look of hopelessness that she had given me in that house.
It was the same look she had given me the night I had taken her from her father to pay his debt. But back then, even though she had been hurt by him, there was such fire in her eyes. Such defiance when she had looked at me and I had thought she was the most spirited human I had come
