Chapter 83: No Matter What

Night’s P.O.V I watched with raised eyebrows as Kai heaved, his breath coming in pants as he got everything out of his system. “Are you done?” I asked coldly when he fell silent, and he fixed me with his sharp gaze, his jaw clenched and hands fisted at his sides. There was intense anger in his eyes, but the pain in them was unmistakable. The sight of his hurt somehow pulled me a bit out of my own angered daze and I took a deep breath, closing my eyes momentarily to regain my composure. Nothing good would ever come out of fighting fire with fire. I was standing here before him to try and fix things between us, not make it worse. So punching our way out may seem like the easy way to get frustration out, but it definitely wasn’t rational. I tried to soften my expression. “If you must know, I never planned on going back to my “old, fancy life” or marrying Rosalie the way my parents wanted me to,” I said, trying my best to keep my voice even so as to avoid further escalation of the situatio