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Chapter 7: Shattered Silence

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The room felt too small.

Too cold.

Kael’s chains burned against his skin, but he barely felt it.

All he could see was her.

---

Liora stood frozen in the doorway, eyes locked on him.

Tears streamed down her face, but she didn’t wipe them away.

Her hand stayed over her mouth like she was holding back a scream.

“Kael…” she whispered again, voice cracking.

“You’re… alive?”

---

He couldn’t answer at first.

His throat was tight.

Three years of hate and love crashed inside him like waves.

Vortigern chuckled low.

“Told you it’d be a good surprise.”

---

Dax’s grip tightened on her shoulder.

“Liora, let’s go. This isn’t—”

She shook him off and took another step inside.

Closer.

Close enough that Kael could smell her—the same soft vanilla scent that used to drive him crazy.

---

“How?” she asked, voice shaking.

“They said… the cliff… I saw the blood…”

Kael found his voice.

It came out rough. Broken.

“You saw a lot that night, didn’t you?”

---

Her eyes widened. She glanced at Vortigern, then back to Kael.

“What do you mean?”

Kael leaned forward as far as the chains allowed, silver eyes burning into hers.

“You were there. Outside the warehouse.”

“You knew I was going after him.”

---

Liora’s face went pale.

“I… I didn’t want you to go. I begged you to be careful.”

“But you didn’t stop me,” Kael said quietly.

“You didn’t tell me the truth.”

---

Vortigern smirked, enjoying the fracture forming between them.

Dax shifted uncomfortably but stayed silent.

---

Liora stepped closer again.

Now she was only feet away.

Kael saw the ring on her finger—bright and cruel under the harsh light.

---

“I didn’t know everything,” she said fast, tears falling harder.

“I swear, Kael. I worked for them sometimes—small jobs, passing messages. I hated it.”

“They had something on me… from before we met.”

“I never wanted you hurt.”

---

Kael’s heart twisted.

Part of him wanted to believe her.

The part of him that remembered—

---

Three years ago.

Rain pounding the windows.

His apartment warm with laughter.

Liora straddling him on the couch as clothes hit the floor.

Her hands in his hair.

His mouth on her skin.

“I love you,” she gasped later, breathless and shaking.

Afterward, tracing his scars, she whispered:

“I’ll never let anything happen to you.”

---

The memory hurt worse than the silver chains.

---

“You let them throw me off a cliff,” Kael said quietly.

---

Liora broke.

“I didn’t know!” she sobbed.

“When Vortigern told me… I ran to the edge. I screamed your name until my voice was gone.”

“I cried for months, Kael. Months.”

---

She reached out, hand trembling, like she wanted to touch him.

Dax grabbed her arm.

“Enough. He’s lying to mess with you.”

She tore free.

---

Liora dropped to her knees in front of Kael.

Her hand hovered over his chained wrist—so close.

“I thought you were dead,” she whispered.

“I hated myself every day.”

“When Dax was there… he helped me breathe again.”

“But it was never…”

She couldn’t finish.

---

Kael stared at her hand.

He could break the chains.

Shift. Burn. Bleed.

Grab her.

Run with her.

Or destroy everything.

He didn’t know which scared him more.

---

Vortigern clapped slowly.

“Touching. Really.”

“But playtime’s over.”

He nodded toward the guards.

---

“Take her out. Lock the pup up tighter.”

“Wedding’s still on.”

“Wouldn’t want drama ruining the big day.”

---

Dax pulled Liora to her feet gently.

She resisted, eyes locked on Kael.

“I’m sorry,” she cried.

“I’m so sorry.”

---

As Dax led her out, she looked back one last time.

The door closed.

---

Kael was alone with Vortigern.

“She’s mine now,” the older man said softly.

“You touch her, you die slower.”

Kael smiled—cold. Sharp.

“You’re wrong,” he said.

“She was never yours.”

---

Vortigern laughed as he left.

Lights dimmed.

---

Kael sat in the dark, chains biting deeper.

But something had changed.

Liora’s tears.

Her words.

The way she reached for him.

---

Maybe she didn’t betray him completely.

Maybe something still remained.

Or maybe it was all lies.

---

Either way—

He had ten days.

Ten days to break free.

Ten days to crash a wedding.

Ten days to choose.

Kill the man who took everything—

Or take back the woman who might still be his.

---

Because when he looked into her eyes tonight, he saw it.

She wasn’t sure anymore either.

And that doubt—

was all he needed.

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