ZAVIAN NOLVEN POV

I froze, my blood turning to ice in my veins.

She was in love with him?

The words echoed through my head with a kind of cruelty I wasn't prepared for, each repetition sinking deeper beneath my skin until my chest felt painfully tight.

"Look," she continued, her voice trembling. "I don't know how this happened, but I was not in my right senses last night—"

"And who do you think drugged you?" I cut in, unable to keep the edge from my voice.

Her eyes flared, confusion swirling in their depths as she stared at me.

"What are you talking about?" she asked, the cuff crinkling...