Aurora's POV
I shouldn’t have been there.
I shouldn’t have heard it. Different memories were still echoing in me.
But fate has a cruel sense of humor, doesn’t it?
I had only stepped out into the corridor for some air.
But then I heard his voice.
“I’ll never love anyone again,” he said, almost to himself. “Especially not... a Nightbane.”
Hearing him, "That was insane." I muttered as soon as the name passed his lips, something inside me cracked, and that made my body too cold. Is he going crazy or what?
I froze outside the door, a tray of untouched breakfast trembling in my hands. I should’ve walked away. Or acted like I had never heard anything like that. But instead, I stood there, watching and listening, like a fool.
My heart is drumming painfully against my ribs.
“Love?” He lau
