DARIUS
“Do you really think that after everything you’ve done, he would want to see you? You didn’t just scare him. You didn’t just hurt him. You scarred him for life.”
Thalia’s words have not stopped echoing in my head. It kept haunting me, like a nightmare even if I’m wide awake… and it only gets worse whenever I try to close my eyes as if my own mind refuses to grant me peace.
Which I can’t deny I deserve.
I was too consumed by rage that day. When that rogue alpha and I clashed, it was not merely a fight for honor. It was the reflection of my pride, guilt, humiliation, and years of festering grief.
It’s what I’ve convinced myself. I believed that the rogue had stolen everything from me: my mate, my son, my dignity. Facing him felt like facing the embodiment of my failure. I did not
