CHAPTER 71:"She Loved Him Too—and I Didn’t Know What to Feel About It"

NADIA

I was broken…..

Seeing Asher break down, shattered something deep inside me.

This was the first time I had ever seen him cry.

Not like this. Not with his soul unraveling in his hands.

He had always been the strong one. Steady. Unshakeable. But now, everything we knew was falling apart…starting from the truth with Beta.

Beta had been alive all this while and Elira has been the one keeping him locked away.

That was hard enough to process.

But the betrayal? The silence? The secrets she kept?

It burned.

I never imagined Elira capable of someone like this. I respected her. Trusted her. And to find out she had hidden such a colossal truth from us….it felt cruel.

Still, a part of me…perhaps the softer, more compassionate part tried to stand in her shoes.

I'm likely to do the same thing…

I can't imagine what Asher is currently going through right now.