Aiden’s POVShe disappeared into the smoke, vanishing right in front of me.I slammed my fist against the window.“Chandria!”The glass groaned under the force, small cracks spreading like spiderwebs, and then—shatter.I didn’t care that my knuckles were bleeding, that the skin had torn open and stung like fire.At that moment, all that mattered was her. All those years I had spent chasing her, hoping, searching, waiting for a single glimpse—and now, when I finally did, she slipped away again.But deep down, I couldn’t blame her.The memory of me, of what I could do, had haunted her for years. And maybe she was right to run.This mess she was caught in, the twisted family she belonged to, the chains of injustice she was trying to break… it was all my fault.Every bit of it.Every wrong choice my family made, every lie, every secret—it led her here. To a life she shouldn’t have had to live.“Lord Serpent,” my men called, “who was that? Is that… Lady Chandria?”I glared at them. “Yes an
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