FELDA

His head turned slowly, his eyes dark, and my anger burst out like fire inside me.

“How dare you?! How dare you say that to me? That I was a substitute?” My voice shook, but I didn’t let it drop. “Really? When I saved Rowan, where was she then? Was I not enough reason for a man to marry me? I stayed by his side, I wiped his blood, held his hand through every night he almost died!”

I could feel the burn of old wounds opening. My chest rose and fell hard as I pointed at him, ...