Evelina’s POVAfter that night, everything changed. Kaelen started bringing women home.Not one. Not two. Dozens.He called them girlfriends.I told myself it didn’t matter. Kaelen was just pressuring me to see the truth, to talk me into giving him up sooner.But three months ago, everything shifted.He proposed. Lilith Draven, his longest girlfriend, became his fiancée. And half of my heart turned to ice since then. I’d known, deep down, that this day would come. But some foolish part of me had hoped I could get to his heart first. That maybe, if I stayed close long enough, I could be enough.But that propose changed everything.I started watching the way Kaelen treated Lilith—soft, attentive, different. More than he ever treated me. It hit me hard. Was this what love looked like to him? Had I been wrong all along? Will he ever love me— the way I love him?I laughed bitterly at the memory now. At the quiet, aching despair that came with it.I even tried to joke once, forcing lightne
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