Chapter 64: Lira clan
VIKTOR'S POV
We rode back to the pack house in suffocating silence.
This journey, one I had believed would bring a ray of hope, had only exposed the truth—that there was none. The world was determined to punish me from every side, to make sure my sins were never forgotten.
I felt like the biggest fool for dragging Ariel into this. For daring to believe I could ever have a fairytale ending. That I could escape.
Her quickening heartbeat, pale face, and sunken eyes told me she was beginning to realize her mistake—that she should never have let me this close.
I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t bear to see that heartbreak and hopelessness in her eyes. My chest ached as though my heart was being crushed inside it. I had never felt so maddeningly afraid of losing someo
