Desiree POV
The moment the words left my lips, the entire room fell into a suffocating silence, and the looks on their faces shifted so quickly it made my chest tighten, because what started as shock slowly turned into something far heavier.
Their eyes widened almost at the same time, realization dawning one after the other as the truth settled in.
“That’s why he stopped the attack,” Zachary said, his voice filled with sudden understanding, though the tension in his body only seemed to grow stronger.
Grayson let out a slow breath, dragging a hand over his face as though trying to process everything at once. “You kept this from us…” he murmured, his voice quieter now, but laced with something deeper than anger.
Disappointment.
That hurt more than anything.
Before I could say anything
