Eliana instinctively turned her head away.

When she saw Samuel's hand frozen in mid-air, not landing on her cheek, tears still fell.

She choked up, asking while her heart quietly broke, "Were you going to hit me?" Samuel dropped his hand and closed his eyes.

Eliana cried, "Samuel, you watched me grow up, kept me by your side, and married me because you understood me and I thought you knew who I really was. But I was wrong. You're the blind one," at this point she ...