NATHAN’S POV
I didn’t regret it, not for a second.
That was the part most people wouldn’t understand, the part they would question if I ever said it out loud, but I wasn’t interested in being understood—not anymore. I stood with my back to the open window, the cool air pushing into the room as if it could settle the tension that hadn’t left me since the moment I walked out of Damon’s palace, but it didn’t touch it.
Nothing did, because this wasn’t something that needed calming. This was something that needed direction.
“You shouldn’t have gone there alone.” My right hand’s voice cut through the silence behind me, steady, controlled, but edged with the kind of concern he didn’t bother hiding when it came to me. I didn’t turn immediately.
“I wasn’t alone,” I said. A pause.
“She was
