Chapter 85:

I sit on the bed, my body numb, my mind spinning in circles. The argument still rings in my ears, every word cutting deeper than the last.

"I don't have the time or the energy to waste on your childishness." He had said before he walked out on me.

The weight of those words presses on my chest like a stone, making it hard to breathe.

"You can't just sit here," Aries growls in my mind, his voice sharper than usual. "You can't let him walk away like that."

"I don't know what else to do." My voice is a whisper, shaky, uncertain.

"You go after him, that's what you do!" He's practically yelling now. "Did you not hear what Cassidy told you? Don't let the distance grow to the point that it can't be fixed."

I press my hands into my lap, my nails digging into my skin. "Did he even love me, Aries? Or was it just the bond?"

Silence.