Cassian POV
I had never known fury like this not in all my years. For the past week, it had burned inside me, a wildfire that refused to be tamed. The pain at my mating mark was relentless, like molten metal pressed against flesh, striking when I least expected it. One moment I’d be mid-sentence in a meeting, the next, searing agony would lance through my side, setting my blood on fire.
Why, Dravina?
Why would she do this to me?
I had never betrayed her. Not once. Not in action, not in intent. I couldn’t even fathom her capable of this kind of cruelty. Had she left to be with someone else? Had Arixen lied when he claimed they hadn’t spoken? Had this entire thing been a calculated deception?
Confusion gnawed at me. Pain twisted inside my chest like a vice. I caught sight of my reflecti
