Dana POV
My voice faltered, tears threatening to spill over as I continued, "Only to learn that he had married someone else, the very woman responsible for the tragic loss of my parents..." The weight of my words hung heavy in the air, and I struggled to maintain composure, fighting against the overwhelming tide of emotion threatening to consume me.
"I hate it," I admitted with a heavy sigh, the bitterness of my past still lingering like a bitter aftertaste.
It wasn't just the failed relationship between Ares and Blaire that pained me now; it was the realization that the man I had once cherished had chosen to align himself with the very woman who had robbed me of my happiness - the woman responsible for my parents' tragic demise.
Bathel's comforting touch on my hand brought
