Chapter 81

"Yet here I am… you failed," she said.

"I promise, it will never happen again," he replied.

"Dimitri, didn't we promise to be truthful with each other? How long were you going to hide this from me? I'm your wife, didn't you think I deserved to know the truth?" she asked with hurt in her voice.

"Yes, you deserved to know about it, but I was afraid that I was going to lose you. When we met, you distrusted me, and you were fighting me every chance you got," he stood up and paced by the bed, "I loved you so much all those years, and I can't afford to lose you. I knew that if I told you I was a part of the underworld, you would have run away from me."

He was fidgeting with his hands while he paced back and forth, how was he going to explain to her that he was still the man she fell in love with these past few months. That nothing would change.