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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT

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Haunted by Mistakes

Killian’s POV

Guilt has a smell.

Like burnt iron and wet stone.

It sticks to your skin, falls into your clothes, ties itself around your neck when nobody sees you. You can work yourself clean, toss till you feel your very bones, bathe in your responsibilities and still there is that something there.

It doesn't fade. It festers.

And mine had festered so long, it became a second heartbeat.

People thought I was mourning like everyone else. That I was grieving the near-loss of the girl we all loved. That I was angry at Selene. At the gods. At fate.

But that wasn’t the truth.

The truth was worse.

The truth was, I was mourning my own hand in all of this.

Because I helped build the road that led her here.

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I stopped attending the daily briefings. I stopped eating with the others. Nicholas didn’t press, he was too focused on Azaria, and part of me was grateful for the space.

But another part hated it.

Because I didn’t deserve comfort.

I didn’t deserve understanding.

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