Kyle's POV
I was mad. No, that was putting it lightly; I was seething.
The words Ava said to me still roared in my ears, as clear as the moment they left her lips. “Every time you show up, Zareon and I suffer. Please, for once in your life, do the right thing… and stay away.” She didn’t just say it, she begged me. With eyes glassy and voice breaking. It was a dagger straight to the chest.
“I’m just trying to protect him because he doesn’t deserve the pain that would come with your love, Kyle.”
Those words had torn fiercely at my heart like a jagged bottle. They had burned more than I expected. Not only because she had said them so painfully. But because she was so damn right. My love for Zareon would come with pain, just like it did for her, yet I was greedy.
My fists clenched on my
