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CHAPTER 305
~Aira's POV~
Standing by the staircase, I clenched the railing, my heart pounding as I listened to Zara and Zade's conversation.
I hadn't meant to eavesdrop. I was simply returning when their voices echoed through the house, halting my steps.
And Zara's words had cut through my heart and the haze in my mind.
"Aira still has a loose cannon of a mate running around, threatening to take her son. And until she deals with him and confronts and rejects him, she won't truly be free to love you the way you deserve."
My throat tightened. She was right.
No matter how much I wanted to deny it, a part of me was still chained to Kane. Not because I loved him—those feelings had died the moment he betrayed me—but because I had never truly broken those chains.