CHAPTER 52. An unforgiving woman

That wasn't an apartment. It had suddenly become a cruel reminder of all the times he had spent there with Valeria and Alice. Alice! He remembered her little face in the hospital. Nothing justified what he had done to Alice, and he deserved every gesture of annoyance and distrust on her part.

And the only reason he had returned to his apartment was because he had followed Valeria and had seen her getting off, unaccompanied, at Davies’ mansion. Otherwise, he could not have been at ease.

How could he have been so stupid? Why hadn't he let her talk? Why hadn't he believed her? How could he have been so wrong?

Morning broke while he was still glued to one of the apartment windows, looking out over a city where everyone went about their lives while he was all alone. How had he come to be so lonely?

He showered and groomed himself as best he could and went straight out to Davies Inc., but no one in the Davies family was there, and Nick didn't dare go loo