Chapter 9
Cassian’s POV
I thought I didn’t love Lyra Thornhart. But when she collapsed in front of me, blood everywhere, I completely lost it.
My heart felt like it stopped beating. I carried her all the way to the hospital, running like my life depended on it.[]
The whole time I kept praying she’d be okay–I would’ve traded my life for hers without hesitation.[]
I spent that whole terrifying night pacing the hospital halls, waiting to hear she was out of danger.]
When the doctor finally said she’d make it, seeing her lying there so pale in that hospital bed, my panic slowly gave way to a different kind of pain.
Like claws tearing through my gut from the inside out, slow and merciless.
My heart, my whole body was screaming at me–I loved her. I’d figured it out way too late, but thank God we weren’t divorced yet. I still had a chance.
I planted myself by her bedside and didn’t move, desperately waiting for her to wake up so I could tell her how wrong I’d been.]]
Seraphine kept calling, asking how Lyra was doing, whether she was dead yet.[]
For the first time ever, I snapped at her. She started crying on the phone, saying she was scared of going to prison.[]
But I was done. Completely done with her. I hung up, turned off my phone. In that moment, all I cared about was protecting my mate.[]
I must have dozed off because I had this nightmare where Lyra looked at me with complete indifference, saying she didn’t love me anymore and wanted a divorce. I woke up in a cold sweat.
Lyra was awake. Joy flashed through me and I started to reach for her, but she grabbed a water pitcher and hurled it at my head, screaming at me to get out.
She wouldn’t listen to a word I said. Her face was pure disgust–that look cut right through me.
During our fight, her stitches tore open and she started bleeding badly. I didn’t dare say another word in case I made it worse. I just ran to get the doctor.
Thank God it wasn’t serious. I’d barely caught my breath when Seraphine found me again. She told me Thorne had divorced her.[]
She begged me tearfully to help her one more time, going on about how she’d loved me all these years, how her family had forced her to leave me back then.[]
I went soft again. Decided to help her one last time. I swallowed my pride and begged Lyra to drop the charges.]
It only made her hate me more. So I got Seraphine the best lawyer in pack, hoping it might get her a lighter sentence.]
But Lyra’s lawyer was someone most people could never even get a meeting with. I knew then that nobody could save Seraphine.[]
Maybe that was for the best–she deserved whatever was coming. All I wanted now was Lyra’s forgiveness, the chance to be with her again.
I waited outside her building that day. It was freezing cold and I stood there for hours until my body went numb, but I finally saw her.[]
After I Got Fremant My Alohs Gave His Bord to in Deraktor
Chapter 9
She got out of someone else’s car, laughing and talking with him.
Just as they were about to leave, I worked up the courage to call out to her.[]
I wanted to start over, would’ve ripped my heart out to show her if that’s what it took. I was begging for just one chance.
But she turned me down flat. Said Seraphine and I were the same type of people–selfish to the core.
She was right. I was selfish. I didn’t want to lose her, not even a little bit.]
But it was too late.
