Nymera’s POV
The attack happened a few weeks after we were banished.
By then, the numbness that had settled over me inside the ballroom had long since disappeared, leaving behind something far worse. Every waking moment felt like I was carrying two separate wounds inside my chest, one caused by the rejection itself and the other caused by the fact that, despite everything Kaelith had done, some stubborn, foolish part of me still loved him. No matter how many times I replayed the scene in my mind, no matter how many times I remembered the coldness in his blue eyes as he stood beside Astra and rejected me before the entire pack, I could not force my heart to stop yearning for him.
The bond had been severed from his side, but because I had never truly rejected him in return, because I s
