With a quiet click, the room plunged into darkness as the Light was switched off.

In the enveloping darkness, Claudia's eyes opened wide, unable to shake off the words Bennett had shared earlier.

Was he insinuating that if there was indeed someone else he loved, he wouldn't force himself to stay in this marriage?

Or could it imply that if he had loved someone else, he would never have agreed to marry her in the beginning?

He said whatever that was bothering her was not a problem at all. But did he genuinely understand her underlying fears?