Arya’s POV
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I sank deeper into the tub, letting the warm water soothe my skin, but it did nothing for the fire raging inside me. My chest ached. My heart felt heavy.
I didn’t even know when a tear slipped down my cheek, mingling with the steam rising around me. Why did it hurt this much? Why did it feel like my chest was being crushed from the inside?
It wasn’t like Leon and I had anything. He wasn’t mine. He never said he was. So why did it feel like I was losing something precious—something I never even truly had?
I closed my eyes, breathing in shakily. I shouldn’t have said all that to Athena. I shouldn’t have snapped. But the way he looked at her… it pierced something raw inside me.
He’d never looked at me that way. Not once. Not even when I stood in front of him, half soak
