Chapter 55: Fracture
Desmond
She really hates us.
The look in her eyes when she walked away stayed in my mind. It was cold. It was empty. It felt finished. That look cut deeper into me than any physical blade I had ever taken in a real battle. I have scars from many fights, but none of them felt as painful as the way she looked at me. There was no anger left in her eyes. There was no hurt or sadness either. There was just something much worse.
There was finality.
I stood in the middle of my room, alone with my thoughts. I asked myself a question that had been bothering me for hours. Have I been too hard on her?
The question had been clawing at my mind since the moment she rejected Kaelan. I kept thinking about how she stood there in front of everyone. She was brave. She stood in that
