Chapter 118

Indira's POV

The hallway outside Titan’s office was quiet, but I could hear their voices through the slightly open door. I shouldn’t have been there. I knew that. Titan hated eavesdroppers, and if he caught me, there would be trouble. But something in his tone made me stop instead of walking past.

“…Kira’s parents were killed during the attack,” James was saying.

The words froze me.

For a moment, I thought maybe I had misheard. But the silence that followed was heavy. I was not just hearing things. This was real.

I pressed my back against the wall, my heart suddenly racing. My father. And his wife, my step mum, was dead?

I had never been close to him. Not after what he did. Not after his betrayal of marrying another woman. Not after he replaced my mother like she was nothing. I hated him for marrying another woman, for starting another life as if I didn’t matter. I told myself I didn’t care if I never saw him again.

But hearing it now… hearing that he was gone… something inside me cra