XANDER'S POV:
The water cascaded down my body, but it didn't wash away my sins. I still felt it heavy, within me.
I lay my hands against the smooth tiles, letting the water pelt my skin, as if the heat could cleanse me. But it didn't.
I had betrayed her. My mate.
Nyx.
I could still see her in my mind—her eyes sharp. the way she looked at me the last time we saw each other. If she ever found out what I had done… what I had allowed to happen… would she ever forgive me?
I hated myself for what had just happened, what I had let to happen.
I squinted my eyes shut, trying to push the guilt away. But it held me, lingering and suffocating.
“Hey, babe.”
Camila’s voice sliced through the steam-filled air, sultry and calling.
“You’ve been in there for over a time,” she purred. “Do you n
