Rafael's POV
The three men had stepped outside to give us privacy, yet for several long minutes, Maya Dennovan remained on her knees while I stood frozen in place.
The room was filled with nothing but the sound of her quiet sobs and my heavy sighs as I repeatedly failed to find the right words to begin.
After learning the truth from Dimitri, I had desperately tried to find a scapegoat somewhere outside of myself.
Caroline Housley would rot in a psychiatric hospital for the rest of her life. There would be no chance for the Housley family to rise again and interfere with my life.
And this woman… The world still saw her as the victim of my father's assault.
But she had deliberately approached my mother for money, fame, or whatever hell reason a wicked person could come up with.
Something that wasn't even worth trying to understand.
