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Chapter Seventy-two

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Cassiopeia Nyx

The orphanage smelled like soap and warm bread. Finally, the children had gotten better.

Squeals and chants echoed through the entire building as they ran around the common room, shrieking with laughter and chasing each other in circles, cheeks pink, eyes bright.

I should have felt nothing but relief. Instead I felt… hollow. Like someone had scooped out everything soft inside me and left only sharp edges.

So I scrubbed.

I knelt on the stone floor of the laundry room with my sleeves shoved to my elbows, plunging sheet after sheet into the tub filled with water and soap suds. The water was scalding—I had made it that way on purpose—because pain was honest. Pain didn't pretend. Pain didn't leave a kiss on your head when you were asleep and walk away from you without a goodbye.

Two days.

Forty-eight hours since he had knelt beside me on the gravel in front of the pack hall and asked me helplessly what he needed to do for me to forgive him.

Forty-eight hours since I had walk
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  • Fangs Of Love   Chapter Seventy-two

    Cassiopeia NyxThe orphanage smelled like soap and warm bread. Finally, the children had gotten better.Squeals and chants echoed through the entire building as they ran around the common room, shrieking with laughter and chasing each other in circles, cheeks pink, eyes bright.I should have felt nothing but relief. Instead I felt… hollow. Like someone had scooped out everything soft inside me and left only sharp edges.So I scrubbed.I knelt on the stone floor of the laundry room with my sleeves shoved to my elbows, plunging sheet after sheet into the tub filled with water and soap suds. The water was scalding—I had made it that way on purpose—because pain was honest. Pain didn't pretend. Pain didn't leave a kiss on your head when you were asleep and walk away from you without a goodbye.Two days.Forty-eight hours since he had knelt beside me on the gravel in front of the pack hall and asked me helplessly what he needed to do for me to forgive him.Forty-eight hours since I had walk

  • Fangs Of Love   Chapter Seventy-one

    Xeros RomanovI had never felt more useless in my entire life than I did now.My mate… my Cassie was curled against the stone wall like a broken bird, knees drawn to her chest, shoulders shaking with sobs that tore out of her in ragged, silent waves. And I just… stood there. Three feet away. Hands hanging at my sides like dead things. Because I was the reason she was crying. I was the architect of every tear carving a path down her pale cheeks that used to glow for me.I tried to speak to her, to get her to breathe, but the effort died when it yielded no results. I had built that chasm between us with my own stupid, terrified hands.The wind moved through the bare trees behind the pack house, rattling branches like bones. The sound scraped over my skin, but it was nothing compared to the sound of her trying to breathe through the panic I should have held her through.My knees hit the cold gravel as I sank down. I wanted to touch her so badly that my hands shook. But I knew I had lost

  • Fangs Of Love   Chapter Seventy

    Cassiopeia NyxThe pack grounds were too quiet.No pups laughing, no warriors sparring, no clatter of daily life. Only the wind moving through bare branches and the low murmur of wolves who saw me coming and immediately dropped their gazes. I walked the gravel path toward the great hall with my head high and my hands curled into fists inside my sleeves. Normally, for a meeting with the council, I would have to dress formally—fancy dresses and shoes, but now, I barely even had the strength to do anything. All I could manage to put on was a pair of black pants and a sweater. By the time I crossed the corner that led to the pack hall, I saw himXeros stood at the foot of the stone steps that led up to the double oak doors. He had clearly been waiting for me.My heart lurched so violently I almost stumbled.He looked like he hadn't gotten a wink of sleep last night. His hair was scattered from all angles, shirt wrinkled like he didn't even bother checking what state it was in. His eyes

  • Fangs Of Love   Chapter Sixty-nine

    Cassiopeia NyxI woke up feeling like I had been dragged through a rose bush and then shoved down a hill.My eyelids were swollen and sticky with tears, I could barely even feel my own throat. It was raw and scratchy, like I had swallowed all the sandpaper in this world. My fingers pressed against the damp pillow, warm from my tears. Xeros scent still clung to everything: the sheets, the air, my skin, my hair. I had buried my face in his side of the bed and cried until there was nothing left, and still his smell wrapped around me like a punishment I couldn’t escape.Sunlight crept through the space between the curtains before settling deliberately on a golden tray perched on the bedside table, its light glinting off the edges and giving it a faint, ethereal glow.On the tray was a plate.Creamy scrambled eggs flecked with chives. Two buttered croissants arranged like little wings. A tiny glass bowl of sliced strawberries glistening with sugar and a glass of water.There was no note.

  • Fangs Of Love   Chapter Sixty-eight

    Cassiopeia NyxI walked mainly because if I stopped, I would fall apart.The forest path back to the pack grounds was a grey blur through my tears. Dried leaves and twigs crunched beneath my boots as the cold air nipped at my lips and fingertips, but I barely felt it. Every breath tasted like salt, rage, and heartbreak. My chest hurt so badly I had to press a hand over my heart just to try to contain it.Unlike me, Hera was ruled by animal instincts, she couldn't stand the wall I was putting up between Xeros and I right now. All she cared about was her mate. Sure, she was upset before, but she had gotten over it. She made me feel like I had no valid reason to be angry, but I did, I knew deep down just how much he had hurt me."Mate has apologised already, just forgive him." “No,” I snapped out loud, voice cracking. “Everything doesn't just get fixed like that right now. He gets to feel this. He wanted to die, then he should know how I felt.”She curled into a miserable ball at the ba

  • Fangs Of Love   Chapter Sixty-seven

    Xeros Romanov.I had never been afraid of anything in my life. Not war. Not death. Not the gods themselves.But the sight of her on her knees at the border, sobbing into the dirt like her entire world had ended, terrified me down to the marrow.I couldn't hide the fact that I was beyond enraged that Anakin had disregarded my orders and brought her right into the heart of danger. He would answer to me later.But right now, the fear in my bones overshadowed the anger.Her sobs tore through me like a knife right to the chest.For one heartbeat, the relief in her eyes was so bright it nearly brought me to my knees. I just stood there, unable to move, unable to tear my mind from her face, unable to push back the harrowing fact that she had found out the truth.She knew everything.That was the thing about truth, the more you tried to hide it, the more it slipped like sand from your fingers right into the open.The relief on her face died as fast as it came.Replaced by something that lo

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