69| His new motive & True love

Orla's POV

As those words left my mouth, we were surrounded by deafening silence. He stared at me without blinking his eyes while I maintained by his gaze.

"I can't go against my father," I said again to make sure he understood.

I was doing all of this on purpose to show him that he can't get everything he wants so easily. In this life, he will be the one to lose everything at my expense.

"So you don't want us to be one!" He asked me.

I wanted us to be one and left everything for you. You were the one who didn't want it.

"They have only me, and they have done everything to keep me happy and safe," I stated. "I can't just flee like that!" I was now saying things in my previous life that I should have said.

"But, your father..."

"Don't say anything about my father," I said before he could finish himself. "Would you have gone against your father's wishes if he was still alive?"

Following my question, he fell silent. Of course, he did all of this for his father, and I, being the idiot,