Chapter 369

Zarek's POV

"We're not suited. I can't trust you completely."

Those words cut deeper than any blade I'd taken in battle. I told myself she'd calm down, that she just needed time. But when she looked at me again—steady, unflinching—I saw it. The wall. The one she'd built between us.

And then she said it, quiet and merciless: "You really think this island can keep me here?"

That was the moment I rea