~HUNTER~
I stood outside Celine's door for what felt like hours after she had stopped responding to me.
The silence on the other side was deafening, broken only by the sound of Caesar's quiet chatter as he played with his toys.
My chest felt tight like I couldn't get enough air.
The look on Caesar's face when I had snapped at him kept replaying in my mind….the way his little shoulders had slumped, how quickly the light had gone out of his eyes.
I would never forgive myself for that.
But I couldn't stay here torturing myself. Not when Mother was probably downstairs gloating over the disaster she had orchestrated.
I found her in the drawing room with Mia, both of them sipping tea like they hadn't just destroyed my world thirty minutes ago.
"Hunter, dear," Mother said without looki
