[WARNING! Unedited! Don't buy. Sorry I have a very terrible migrane and couldn't think and write. so we will do it tomorrow. Thank you for your patience]
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Liora's fingers curled into her lap. She had no words yet—none that could possibly meet the depth of what he was revealing. So she let him keep going.
"I left," he said. "Bleeding. Alone. I didn't even bury her. Her pack came. Took her body like she was some martyr. They said I murdered their golden daughter. Maybe I did. Maybe that's all I'll ever be in their eyes."
He looked up at Liora, something fractured in his gaze. "But I loved her. With everything I had. Even when she stood against me."
The fire's glow flickered across his face, casting long shadows that seemed to echo the pain written into every line of him.
"Did you go back?" Liora asked, her voice soft. Careful.
