Chapter 96

VALENTINA It hit me all at once, like a blade between the ribs, slicing it apart slowly, yet deliberately and I couldn't even do anything. I only stood there, helpless at the sudden realisation. I had fallen for him… Andres Donovan—the famous Lycan King who could unravel me with a single look. The man who didn't even bother to look at me or respect our bond. The man who saved me in the forest but left me bleeding in ways no one else could see. I didn’t know when it happened. Maybe in the way his eyes burned with something unspoken when they found me, or probably in the quiet gravity of his presence, or perhaps in the way my soul seemed to steady when he was near, or maybe it was the day when we first met in the dark forest. I don't know at all. But now that I saw it, now that I felt it, there was no undoing it. The realization was devastating. It's near destruction for me. If there's one thing life has taught me, it was this: love was the deadliest weapon of all; either it makes your l