Cassian stumbled forward and collapsed to his knees before me with a loud, desperate thud.He lifted his tear-streaked face to look up at me. "What do I have to do... for you to forgive me?" he pleaded.From his pocket, he clumsily pulled out a handful of my old pendant's fragments and showed them to me."Zora, look—" he cried, "I found these under your bed. It's your pendant! We can go back to the church... we can get another one that looks exactly the same, okay? Please, don't marry him. Don't leave me..."I gazed coldly at the pile of shattered fragments in his palm, a bitter smile curling on my lips."Cassian," I said icily, "can you piece these shards back together and make them whole again?"Once broken, how could anything ever return to what it once was? Just like us.Cassian froze, his expression blank. The shards slipped from his trembling hand, clattering helplessly to the floor.At that moment, the door slammed open with a bang. Richard stormed in, flanked by two uni
Read more