Chapter 38

Atlas's POV...

What I did today was so rash and unexpected, and I was aware that it bordered on being reckless. On the other hand, I didn't want to give a damn about it. I had shown sufficient concern. Now, I wanted to go as far as my heart takes me, and I also wanted to do what my mind tells me to do. I wanted to do both of these things.

It wasn't just that the marriage had the potential to safeguard her; I had always had this goal in mind from the very start.

After being startled by the abrupt knock on the door, I turned around and saw the woman that I had been expecting all along. I told her, as I shut the drawer of my study table, "There is no need for you to knock from this point on, Caroline." Even though the bookcase was always arranged in an orderly fashion and contained a variety of books, I was never able to locate the specific book that I was looking for. Because of this, I made sure to keep a record of the location in which I stored the books that I intended to eventually