Chapter One-hundred and nine.

Pascal's POV:

I felt hurt that she had to go through all of that, and my actions had triggered that traumatic memory for her.

Her last words shook me because now I understood what she went through and my contributions to it.

"I went for therapy and all to be able to move on with my life. All this and what you said about finding me worthy to be your wife just took me down this horrible path that I never wanted to thread on to begin with. I felt like I had not learned my lesson and I had fallen for the reason I had a mental breakdown ten years ago.

Like history was repeating itself again but with a guy I actually genuinely like, not one I was manipulated into thinking I had feelings for. That was why I had to get away from you, you were playing me all this time like I did not matter! " She was screaming by the end of it. I could feel her pain. Almost touch it, it was that palpable. And I had enabled this. But I had to make something clear first.

"I never played you Sandy, you always m