I only did it to protect our future together.
Please.”
He looked at her as if seeing her clearly for the very first time, and perhaps he was.
“To protect us,” he repeated.
“By locking my mother out of this building?
By making me believe the one person who was trying to warn me was the one trying to hurt me?”
Camilla pressed her lips together.
There was no version of the answer that helped her, and she knew it.
“You used me from the first night,” Corbin said quietly.
He held out his open palm.
“Give me back the ring.”
“You can’t humiliate me like this,” she hissed.
“You humiliated me the moment you turned my life into a transaction,” he said.
“Give it back, or my attorneys file fraud charges against your family before midnight.