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Chapter Thirty-one. Shameless. Ivanna Pov. He was speechless for a few seconds. And then he was back to grabbing my hands and pleading.  "Please, forgive me, Ivanna. I had no choice. You gave me no choice." "Oh, so now it's my fault?" "No. But the situation was tricky. You were tagged as the killer of the woman who loved me the most. How could I have accepted you as my mate?" "Really?" "Let's not talk about the past anymore, Ivanna. We're over that. I admit. I was wrong. I made terrible mistakes. But it's not too late to fix things between us." "It is way too late, Rocco," I tried to whisk my hand from his grip, but he wouldn't let go. "I can't accept an abuser as my mate. I can't forgive everything you did to me." "You can, if you try harder. We were childhood sweethearts, remember? We used to love each other a lot. I'm sure we can be that way with each other again." "I can't feel that way about you ever again, Rocco…" "And why not? You're my mate, for fuck's sake, Ivanna. You have to