Orphelia POV
The night was quiet, but my mind churned with thoughts I couldn’t escape. The office felt suffocating, the walls closing in as I sat in my chair, staring at the dim glow of my computer screen. I had always been a patient person, a loyal one, but patience had its limits. Do Hwan’s coldness towards me, his growing attachment to Cathy, it was too much. I couldn’t just sit back and watch him slip away from me.
I had given him five hundred years of unwavering loyalty, yet it seemed so fragile now, like it could shatter at any moment. One moment of weakness, one moment of carelessness, and Cathy would claim him. I couldn’t allow that to happen.
The more I thought about it, the more the weight of the situation pressed down on me. Cathy didn’t belong here. She didn’t belong with
