Dravina’s POV

“I was a fool, Dravina.”

Cassian’s voice was raw with grief, his tears streaming unchecked. His entire frame shook as though the weight of his admission threatened to break him in half.

“You were mine. You loved me.” His breath fractured, trembling against his chest. “But I was too paranoid, too blind to see that I was destroying everything we had.”

I watched him fold beneath the crushing truth of his own failings, the realization of what he had lost shattering ...