She headed into the hall to her guest room to gather her few things, but behind her Leo shouted from the door, “Bruno is gone. You’re now Anna Camila Aussa.”
Her neck was tight. She refused to turn around. She couldn’t let him see how close to tears she was, so she called out, “That’s just temporary. I’m filing for divorce if I can’t get the annulment.”
Leo’s voice snuck past her defenses as he asked in a quiet tone, “Why?”
Oh no. Her walls around her heart tumbled like that one soft, gentle, caring word was a battering ram. She turned and met his brown-eyed gaze that sent a shot of heat through her. “Because I was a fool to marry you and you clearly have other… options. Goodbye.”
Drat. Tears rolled out of her eyes again. He must have seen. She picked up the pace and ran toward her empty room. She didn’t have much to call her own.
She needed to lock the door and never, ever come out until she was sure she could hold her head up and make it to the front doors of the castle.
Maybe that would never happen, but either way she couldn’t be here.
Not anymore.
