"Lady! I do not think I can do this. I will prove myself in another way. Please give me another chance."
Roarke knew that he had fucked up.
The moment he had felt bad for Ivy Cassia was the moment he had lost everything. All that big talk about climbing sand hills. About walking the desert forever. About doing whatever it took to return to Arkai's side and become his son's father—Ha.
Apparently, after all these years, after everything he had done and everything he had failed to do, he was still soft.
And in his softness, he had betrayed both of them.
He had betrayed Ivy Cassia's trust, treating him as one of her people rather than a tool to be used and discarded. And he had betrayed Lady Sees by exposing her. By calling her out. By demanding that she reveal herself, when her entire purpose for being here was to remain unseen.
Now neither of them would ever trust him again.
"Please." He said. "Wherever you are watching from, come out. I will… I will take responsibility."
