{Ronan’s POV}‘That's going to be tough.’ I pondered, sitting in my study with the curtains drawn, the fire low in the hearth.The silence should have been calming, it should have made deciding easy… but it didn’t.I could not stop seeing Damon’s face. That look when I had stripped him of his title. Hurt, yes, but worse was the acceptance in his eyes, as if he believed he deserved it.The memory gnawed at me. I pushed back from the desk and stood, restless. My hands curled on the edge of the table, then I swept everything to the ground in one violent motion. Papers scattered, glass shattered, ink bled across the carpet. None of it lightened the heaviness in my chest.I had loved Damon like a brother. He had stood at my side through battles, guarded my back time and time again, and yet he had betrayed me in the worst way. He had let Lucien strike me, had watched while I was one upped time and time again. No matter his reasoning, I could not forgive that.And still, he had been the one
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