DALTON POV
*Born with a broken heart - Damiano David*
Waiting for the ambulances and the royal guards to arrive felt like the longest time of my life.
Kai was curled up around Derrick’s limp body, tears slipping silently down her cheeks like she didn’t even notice them. She wasn’t sobbing. That would’ve been easier. This was worse. Quiet. Still. Broken.
And I just wanted to hold her. Tell her everything was going to be okay. That we would fix this.
I tried, really tried to comfort her. But I couldn’t anymore. Not now. Not when Derrick looked like death was already clawing its way into him.
Seeing him like this did something to me—something I didn’t have the words for. Something that cut deeper than I expected.
We'd grown up hating each other, constantly butting heads, fighting over
