Gabriella’s POV
The bedroom doors shut behind me loudly and I leaned my back against it, my hands shaking badly and my chest was heaving up and down.
My throat felt so tight and dry it was hard to swallow, and every time I tried to take a breath, the air felt like hot needles inside my lungs.
My conversation with Noah in the hallway ruined me. His words were still screaming inside my head.
He had looked at me with so much disgust, acting like I was a monster who tried to ruin his perfect life.
He doesn't care that he lied to me for six months or that his family broke my pride and used my blood to fix their castle.
But it got even worse the second I lifted my eyes.
Lexus was sitting on the edge of the bed across the room. He didn't say a word. He just looked at me with emotions tha
