I couldn’t take it anymore.
For weeks now, I’d drowned in a sea of unspoken truths, wrapped in cold silences and mysterious secret between Aiden and that woman......Mara.
I’d told myself I was done asking. That if the truth was ever going to find me, it would walk up on its own and spit it out.
But the longer I waited, the more I realized that silence was a knife being driven into my back, slowly, deliberately, while they both watched me bleed.
This wasn’t love. It was torment.
So I stood there in the middle of the training field that morning, staring at nothing, heart racing in my chest, the wind slapping against my face like it wanted to knock sense into me.
Luca had offered to train with me, but I’d waved him off. I needed the space. I needed the air. I needed the courage to do wh
