Afraid.
“Why are you hiding so much?” Clara asked.
For a moment, the powerful billionaire disappeared.
And she saw a wounded man.
“Because people only love beautiful things, Clara.”
She stared at him.
“That’s not true.”
“It is.”
“No.”
Her voice became firmer.
“I married a man I thought everyone hated. And every day, you prove that they were wrong.”
Don Baste looked at her.
And for the first time, Clara saw tears forming in his eyes.
But he quickly turned away.
Their first wedding anniversary arrived quietly.
