°•♡Chapter 105~ She Made Me do it

The room got colder when Cael walked in.

Not literally—but it felt like it.

He didn’t speak at first. Just stood in the doorway, eyes flicking over me, then Ansel, then Ronan.

Then he looked at me like the entire world narrowed down to just my skin.

“I’ll help you find them,” he said. “Your children. I’ll bring them back to you, Aria.”

I barely nodded.

He stepped further in. His voice dropped, softer now. “I love you. That’s all I’ve ever done. In every lifetime, every version of you, it’s always been you. I would serve you, live for you, die for you. You know that, don’t you?”

And that was it.

That was the moment I wanted to scream.

Instead, I exhaled hard through my nose. “Cael,” I said tightly, “focus on the task at hand.”

He blinked.

The disappointment in his face was so quiet, it was almost comical. But I didn’t laugh.

I wish i could've. But there was nothing funny about the circumstances.

I was too busy wondering how the hell any version of me—any past l