Chapter 23
Trista's POV
I screamed and cried. My voice was ragged, "So what if Silverlight is bankrupt! I'll tell The Elder Council everything!"
"Cassian, I want to terminate the mating contract! I want to reject you and end the oath!"
"I will make sure everyone knows you broke our sacred vow!"
"I'll make sure that she-wolf you care about the most is forever labeled a 'homewrecker'!"
He didn't say a word. His fingers remained clamped around my wrist bone.
I stared at his hand. The low growl in my throat became a thin thread—it wasn't surrender. It was restraint.
But the nail in my chest remained. Every breath scraped past the sharp edge, thin and painful.
I was shaking with hysteria. Yet, he stood by the bed like a wall bracing against the wind. He forced me into a hug.
I couldn'
