I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to feel. What was I supposed to do with the words that Cassian had just dropped on me? He wasn’t some guy just running from his past anymore. He was a traitor to Silverclaw, a rogue wolf who had been forced into doing things, things that were too terrible to even think about. And now, I couldn’t seem to shake the weight of it.
I had spent so long thinking of him as a good guy, someone who was just trying to survive. But that wasn’t it, was it? He wasn't just surviving. He had been fighting for his humanity. For his soul.
And now, as I sat there beside him, barely able to process everything, I was stuck in this in-between. I knew I didn’t have to forgive him for everything. I didn’t have to erase the things he had done. But I also knew that, somehow, I wa
