I still said nothing.
“She almost died, Nyx.” He said it like he was trying to appeal to my emotions and make me pity Zora, that instinctive urgency in his voice whenever it concerned her.
I closed my eyes slowly.
The mark disappeared automatically the moment he placed another one, meaning while I was wandering alone through dark roads and forests… while rogues tracked me like prey, Kael had been focused entirely on saving Zora.
What devastated me was that he never asked if rogues actually attacked me, never asked how I survived, or where I was now. Because the possibility that I might have died genuinely never crossed his mind long enough to matter.
A strange numbness settled over me.
“Congratulations on the wedding,” I said quietly, almost politely.
Kael fell silent immediately,
