Chapter 180Damian’s POV

For a long, hollow moment after Rain finishes her confession, I can’t hear anything.

It’s like the world has gone silent, swallowed whole by the echo of her words.

“I was sent to destroy you.”

“I was never one of you.”

The sentences replay again and again in my head .

I stare at her, but I don’t recognize the woman standing before me. The Rain I knew, the one who used to laugh softly when I teased her, who always smelled like rain and pine, who looked at ...