Chapter 115

I had left for the palace with a heart full of excitement and anticipation, but that was soon replaced with a crushing sense of betrayal and hurt. The image of Kieran with another woman was seared into my mind, and I couldn't shake off the feeling of being punched in the gut.

Why? How could he do something like this to me? I had given him my whole heart, bared my soul to him, and trusted him with every fiber of my being. Yet, he had shattered that trust into a million pieces, each one causing an insane amount of pain deep inside.

I felt tears threatening to spill, blurring my vision, but all I wanted to do in that moment was to force them apart and kill them. And I did, pulling them apart with a strength I didn't know I possessed, forcing the woman to stumble backward and smack into the wall.