CHAPTER 61

　　Syl looked at me sympathetically as I told him about the agony I suffered at Kaiser’s hands, starting from the interview up to bedding his brother-in-law and then being sent to serve Lenard Lee. “I shouldn’t have trusted him,” I said, not allowing myself to shed any tears. “But I did, and I made the wrong choice.”

　　“Piper,” he heaved a long sigh and took me into a bear hug. “I thought you were going to hate me for all I did to you then.”

　　My heart numbed. If only I knew the truth, would things have turned out differently? I was still infertile and could never give him biological children. This was why I had left him in the first place, and things could never go back to the past.

　　“I don’t hate you, Syl,” I answered after a short pause. “I just know we… can’t.”

　　“Why not, Piper? After how I opened up to you about my secret of being an undercover agent? You still can’t trust me? Are you still mad about how I treated you then?”