Chapter 40: A Good Man
Warrick
The silence enveloped the room after my father left so abruptly, but despite all that, inside me, the noise was deafening. Each beat of my heart resonated with a mixture of emotions I could barely contain. There she was, Cassandra, just a few steps away after speaking the words I had longed to hear for so long. "I love you, Warrick." That simple confession hung in the air like an eternal promise, a longing that had finally come true.
My eyes couldn't leave her. Her beauty, her strength, her fragility... everything about her took my breath away. It didn’t matter how many times I saw her; I always found something new to admire, something that made me feel lucky to have her by my side. At that moment, as I looked at her, I knew nothing else mattered. Not busi
