The War God Alpha’s Arranged Bride Novel

---- Chapter 128 [Evelyn's POV] This wasn't how | expected my night to go. All | wanted was to ease the uncomfortable scratchiness in my throat with a cup of tea and return back to my silent sanctuary. The last several days had been some of the hardest to ever endure in my life. I'd become so used to being around people who cared for me and appreciated me, that | generally wasn't used to being alone and isolated. Granted, | was responsible for shutting myself away-I knew that -I just couldn't believe that this was how I'd been living for the majority of my life.

Before | married Alexander, | never realized that I'd been primarily living in my family alone. The staff were my only source of conversation. But there was only so much time they were able to converse with me before it would begin to hinder their responsibilities. As sad as it sounded, | was grateful for every chance we got to speak. Without them, | didn't know what would have become of me. So far, the only positive thing that came from my marriage to Alexander was gaining a larger network of people | could spend my time around.

---- So, why was | shutting everyone else out, as well as Alexander now? An hour or two after | had initially stormed off from having gone off on Alexander, | came to a grizzly and painful realization. | had hurt someone. The feeling of having the back of my head smash into Oliver's nose, and hearing the awful crunch of his bones made me nauseous. | couldn't believe what I'd done. | was beside myself. Although I'd told him to let me go, | still didn't like the fact that | had injured him.

Apart from not wanting to have anything to do with Alexander, | purposely kept myself hidden away because of the shame that | felt. That whole scene had taken place in front of so many other staff members. Now, they were all going to believe that | was some violent nutcase. | couldn't imagine any of them ever looking at me the same way again. It left me heartbroken and even more angered toward Alexander. It was because of him that this whole misunderstanding escalated so terribly.

| really didn't know what was to become of my life now that everyone had witnessed me blowing up in front of Alexander ---- and telling him that | refused to be in the same space as him. The mere thought of him now had my heart aching. The anger was still there but a lot of the rage had burned off, causing me to feel drowsy and utterly exhausted. | had a headache that refused to go away and my sleeping pattern hadn't been any better. If | wasn't suffering from the ongoing mortification then | was struggling with nightmares.

| constantly felt out of it which was why | remained standing in front of Alexander. | just didn't have the energy to make a quick escape. What | found shocking about our interaction was that he was actually apologizing to me. Hearing him own up to his faults made my guilt come rushing forth with a force that left me trembling. "How could you do that to me?" | asked him. "How could you make me feel so horrible about myself when | didn't do anything?" "Trust me, | know that now." My voice sounded hollow. "I don't think | can," | admitted. | saw the hurt in his eyes.

"When | saw you there with Michael, my initial reaction wasn't anger but rather confusion. | didn't understand how or why he would be there. | know that Michael had seen me before you did. Evelyn, the look he had on his face ---- was monstrous." My brows pulled together. Of course, | couldn't recall seeing such a look from Michael. My attention had been too focused on Alexander. "| snapped. | admit it," he said with a pained look of shame. "I shouldn't have taken my anger out on you. Unfortunately, | did believe that you had intentionally set out to meet him." "No, Alexander.

| was walking aimlessly around that place for hours because of you," | told him. "You had just thrown me the most incredible birthday I've ever had and the next thing | know, you're avoiding me. You made me think I'd done something wrong. You wouldn't talk to me. You're the one who shut me out."