Chapter 96
Dane
I should have felt satisfied. We had finally marked Annalise. She was ours. Yet, my mind was far from at peace.
Her words still rang in my head.
"Leave."
That was all she said to me. No warmth, no exhaustion-laced contentment like she gave Sylus and Cassian—just cold rejection.
I scoffed under my breath, tilting my head slightly as I studied myself in the mirror. My black eyes gleamed with something dark, something unsettled. It was obvious that among the three of us, I was her least favorite.
That realization should have pissed me off. Maybe it did. But more than that, it stung.
I knew why. My way of loving her had always been the roughest. Too demanding, too intense, too much. But it was the only way I knew how. And f**k, I did love her—desperately.
She just neve
