Jolie pov

"It could." I agree. "But I won't. Because you don't deserve healing. You deserve exactly what you gave me—pain without relief, suffering without support, and death without the comfort of knowing someone cares."

"Jolie..." Gio looks up at me, tears streaming down his face. "He's our father."

"He stopped being my father years ago." I turn away. "When he decided pack reputation mattered more than his daughter's life. Let him die with that choice."

"Please..." My father's voice is ...