|Serena's POV|
The weight of my words hangs in the air, heavy and suffocating, as Gryphon's fury crackles between us, raw and unrelenting. He's on the edge of exploding, his anger thick and palpable, like a storm threatening to tear everything apart.
"You don't need to be like this," I tell him, my voice steady, though I can feel my pulse racing in my throat. "There's nothing you can do to them now. They're gone. You can't find them, you can't make them pay. It's over."
The words come out quieter than I intend, but they carry the force of a decade of silence. My eyes meet his, and I see the confusion flicker in them, the desire to fix what's broken, to make everything right again. But there's no fixing this.
He takes a step toward me, his fists clenched, jaw tight. "What do you mean? W
