Chapter 40: What Sorry Costs
Sera's Pov I stayed at the panel for a long time after his footsteps faded down the hallway. Not because I was falling apart. I was past that. I stayed because walking away felt like it meant something, and I needed a moment to decide what. Caden had just apologized to a wall. Three years, and the most honest thing he had ever said to me was aimed at glass he could not see through. I did not know whether to be angry about that or something softer, so I stood there and let both feelings sit next to each other without making them compete. Eventually I stepped back. I let out a slow breath. I walked out into the hallway. Riven was there, leaning against the opposite wall, arms crossed, waiting. He had been waiting the whole time and had not knocked or called out or done anything to rush
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