Chapter 348

His eyes darkened. “Care?” he repeated. “You think I don’t care?” He stepped closer, towering over her. “If I didn’t care, do you think I’d be standing here?” he said. “Do you think I’d lose my mind for two days not knowing where you were?” His voice rose at the end. Riyana felt something twist inside her chest. For a second, doubt flickered. Then she crushed it. “If you cared,” she said quietly, “you wouldn’t have gone to her” That was the sentence that broke something. Jabco’s jaw clenched so hard it hurt. “if you are anger because you think I sleep with her didn’t sleep with her,” he said through his teeth. Riyana froze. The words hung in the air. “Is that supposed to make it better?” she asked slowly. Mentioning sleeping together dragged trust, intimacy, and betrayal into the open. Even denying it did not remove the damage. It only shifted it. “You’re sick,” Jabco snapped. “You twist everything in your head.” “And you hide everything behind silence,” Riyana replied. “At least I say