Sienna’s POV
I spent some hours with Maya.
I did not know how best to console her. I could not even condemn her properly because she was already beaten down. What she did was wrong. Darius was right about that part, even if his words had been cruel. But a part of me still felt he deserved some of the pain too. It served him right for playing with a woman’s heart. He had wanted to sleep with Maya, use her for comfort, and then leave her for someone else when it suited him. Maya had only been smart in a desperate, terrible way.
While I held her, I realised I had done almost the same thing to Kael.
I had only wanted to have fun with him. I wanted to sleep with him a few times until my joining. I had not been thinking about his feelings or what it would mean to him afterwards. In a strange
