Chapter 16

Pearl turned to look and was met with Jonah's scorching gaze. His drunken eyes were half-mast with bloodshot veins streaking across the whites. Under the dim yellow glow of the bulb, there even seemed to be a faint shimmer of tears in his eyes. Pearl had to admit that the usually proud and aloof Jonah displaying such a pitiful look on his face was definitely a sight that could melt any woman's heart. Sadly, the heart she had given away so freely to him had died long ago. It had died before she had left the country for Nyora. Jonah's eyes might hold a well of unspeakable agony, but the pain he was feeling now wasn't even a tenth of what she had had to endure back then. She would never forget the day she was sprawled in the middle of the road, feeling her baby slipping away from her body. Her baby had flowed away from her with every drop of blood she had lost that day. That was a pain that was etched on her very soul, something she would never forget. Pearl knew very well that Jona