Adam's face darkened instantly as the word "breakup" left Noah's lips.
A surge of raw, instinctive anger flared in his chest, and for a split second, he wanted to yell.
He wanted to demand how Noah could even think of dissolving their relationship so easily, as if everything they had just gone through meant nothing.
He wanted to ask Noah if their bond was really so fragile that a ghost from the past could shatter it in an instant?
However, Adam caught himself.
He forced the air out of his lungs in a slow, controlled breath, pushing the irritation down.
He realized that Noah's reaction didn't come from a place of malice, but from a deep, generational pain.
He remembered the bone-deep revulsion he had felt when he first uncovered the truth about his lineage, he too had detested the fact that his ancestors did such a thing.
