#Chapter 218 - Jane Plots with the Pups

Jane Ethan winces, then kisses me again, long and deep. When he pulls away, I feel tears in my eyes. I already know he hasn’t been swayed by my pleading. “I know it hurts right now, Jane.” He acknowledges, looking truly aggrieved. “It hurts me too. But one day you’ll see that I’m right.” His thumb brushes a stray tear from my cheek. “You were so much better off without me. You built a fragrance empire and raised three amazing pups all by yourself. But a few months with me and you were on my floor, begging to be a slave again.” “That wasn’t because I was with you, it was because I wasn’t!” I argue fiercely. “It was because of what I did to you!” Ethan explodes, his wolf glowing in his eyes. “I took a strong, independent woman with the world at her feet, and turned her into a hopeless, broken shell of a person without dignity or a single shred of self-worth. “You took a woman who had been going through the motions for years, how to actually live again.” I correct him. “Which is