Chapter 1045

Right now, every image flashing through his mind was gruesome-bloody, brutal, impossible to bear. He couldn't even let himself imagine it: if he lost Chasel, what would his world look like?

Probably like the sky caving in, everything collapsing in on itself, shattered into a wasteland of despair.

Cassius sprinted into the house, gasping for breath.

Inside, everything was cold, dark, and silent as a grave.

Suddenly, all those buried memories surged up from every corner, drowning him like a flood.

Clutching the front of his shirt, Cassius tried to steady his heaving chest, but the ache inside felt like a pack of wolves tearing him apart.

Since Aubrey died, he hadn't set foot in this place. Not once.

The person he loved most had died loving him.

That kind of pain—like a knife twisting in your heart-was something nobody could ever understand unless they'd lived through it.

But this wasn't the time for grief.

“Chasel!” Cassius yelled, hoarse, calling again and again as he tore through room after room.

up the stairs. The home theater's light was on. His heart leapt into his throat, and he rushed

"Chasel!"

Chasel, sitting on the big leather sofa, his eyes glassy and distant.

the screen, videos of Cassius and Aubrey played on a loop—intimate moments,

at them, a twisted, colorless smile creeping onto

Mocking himself.

himself between Chasel and the screen, blocking his view with his own body. "lan was trying to get at me, don't let him

eyes

in Cassius's sweat-soaked, desperate face, his own smile shattering.

clenched so hard he could barely

through a blizzard for miles and miles. "Your heart's

life. The one you'd do anything for, even die

to numb the ache. Something that

me—your mind was with him. You must've felt so lucky to

even comes close. You can't fool your own heart, Cassius. The truth always

his head, pain

not a stand-in, Cassius,” Chasel said flatly. “If I'm just someone's shadow, I'd rather be

Cassius could

a white rose its stem whittled

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