Aria pov

I didn’t cry again,not right away, I walked back to my room like I was floating, like my bones weren’t quite mine anymore. Like my lungs had forgotten how to breathe.

Kael said I was everything, that was what he said to me.

But he’d also ignored me, I felt hurt. Shut me out like I was nothing more than a footnote in his carefully curated life.

My bare feet padded over the cold stone as I reached my door. I closed it behind me with a soft click and leaned against it, staring into the silence like it might give me answers.

Why would he need new...