Chapter 201

Elyana looked up at him, eyes wide, rimmed red. “I wanted you to suffer,” she admitted, voice barely above a whisper. “I wanted you to feel what I felt when I begged you to love me and you didn’t. I wanted you to bleed the way I did that night.” Daimon nodded slowly. “Then do it. Hate me. Punish me. Hit me, scream at me, but don’t leave me. Give me a chance to atone—to be the man you deserve. I swear I’ll spend the rest of my life making it right.” Her heart nearly gave out. Her mind spun in chaos. “And what if I can’t forgive you?” she asked quietly. He cupped her face with trembling hands, forcing her to look into his eyes—eyes full of love, desperation, and fear. “Then I’ll wait,” he said. “Even if it takes the rest of my life. I’ll wait. Because loving you… that’s the only thing I’ve ever been certain of.” Elyana’s tears poured silently, her heart caught between everything that had been broken and everything that could still be saved. A long silence followed. One filled with too mu