Malric's Pov

I just stood there, frozen in the wreckage of everything I'd built, everything I thought I could control.

Reyna's voice cut through the silence like a blade.

"You let her go, Malric!"

I didn't look at her because I couldn't.

"You let her go!" she repeated, louder this time, her tone trembling between anger and heartbreak. "After everything she's been through for you, after everything she's done...you just stood there!"

I wanted to answer. I wanted to tell her I didn't let her go, that I simply couldn't move because the past had chained me by the wrist and refused to let me breathe.

But the words wouldn't...