JADE's POV
Time has a cruel way of proving me wrong.
I had thought there were things I would never tolerate—lines I would never cross, betrayals I would never forgive. I had promised myself I would never be that woman, the one who begged, the one who stayed, the one who forgave the unforgivable.
And yet, here I was. Realizing that I could make exceptions for one person.
Betrayal… It had always been my greatest fear, my hardest boundary. A wound left open by my parents’ toxic marriage, by the way my mother had withered away under my father’s betrayals, by the way she had stayed, hoping it would hurt less if she pretended it wasn’t happening. I had sworn that wouldn’t be me.
Yet, the moment Silas had looked me in the eye and told me he kissed April, my vision had blurred with rage. I ha
