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"You think you can buy me off like the rest of your pawns, Reyansh?"
"I don't need to buy you, Athira. I'll break you...
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"Do you not even regret what you're doing?"
For the first time, I was seeing the merciless side of the man I loved. I had always known that Reyansh wasn't a kind man—not in the way the world defined kindness.
But this... this was different.
The humanity that had always lingered in his gaze, the warmth I had once thought was unshakable, had vanished. Those golden-amber brown eyes, which twinkled whenever they landed on me, had turned dark—almost black. It was as if they had the ability to shift shades, but I knew they didn't. It was simply the difference in how he looked at me and how he regarded the rest of the world.
I swallowed, my lips pressing together as I struggled to voice the words that were clawing at my throat. When they finally escaped, they were barely a whisper.
"Even a little?"
He stared at me, unblinking, unreadable.
The warmth didn't return to his gaze, but I knew—I knew—that love still lived there. Even now. Even like this.
Reyansh inhaled slowly, the sound almost deliberate, and then his lips curved into a slow, humorless smile. It wasn't cruel, nor was it mocking. It was resolute. Unapologetic.
"Not a chance."
He said it with such unwavering certainty that my mind blanked. I didn't know how to process it—how to think, because there was no room for doubt in his voice.
His voice dropped lower, his words deliberate.
"If I were given a thousand chances to relive this moment, I would always choose to do this."
My breath caught.
Because he meant it. Every single word. There was no bluff, no exaggeration.
But beneath his certainty, I saw it—that flicker of hesitation, buried so deep that perhaps even he wasn't aware of it. It wasn't doubt in his actions. No, Reyansh never doubted himself.