It wasn't just him who was in pain, she was too; while he suffered physically, her pain was in her heart, a pain like needles piercing, impossible to ignore.
When Valentine Teller reached out her hand towards him, he evaded it with disgust: "Get lost! Don't touch me."
Staring at him blankly, Valentine took a deep breath, mustered the courage to meet his icy gaze, and tremblingly asked, "Do you really not care that I'm carrying another man's child?"
Mark Reed fixed his gaze on her tear-streaked face, his heart surging with waves.
When he first met Claudia Ross, she was pregnant with Wyatt Perry's child, and he didn't care, but he had an extraordinary possessiveness over Valentine, wishing she could belong entirely to him, to hide her away from the eyes of other men.
Perhaps it was ridiculous, yet it was truly what he wanted.
