Chapter 72

CASSIAN’S POV

The mansion felt emptier at night. Too big. Too quiet. Too cold. And somehow, Daphne’s presence only made it worse.

I stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows in my room, a glass of whiskey in hand as I stared down at the city below, jaw clenched tightly enough to hurt. Ever since my father had forced her into my house, peace had become nonexistent.

She was everywhere.

In the kitchen wh