Soren
I barely heard the rest of the meeting. The weight of their decision sat heavy on my chest, suffocating me with every passing second.
The looks, the judgment, the betrayal, it all blurred together into a mess of anger and disbelief.
I was swimming in my own betrayal and it was hurting everyone around me. They were all looking at me with that look in their eyes like I was the devil.
But none of it hit me as hard as Rowan's words.
I wouldn't trust Soren to have my back in a fight.
He'll stab you in it instead.
Even after the meeting adjourned, my body felt sluggish as I stood up. The men left one by one, their whispers trailing behind them like a bad omen. I should have been planning my next move, figuring out how to survive the inevitable, but my feet carried me elsewhere.
To him.