The Abyss Within

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Caius — POV.....

I shouldn't have left.

That was the first thought pounding through my skull as I stormed out of Sabine's quarters.

But staying would have been worse.

Sabine's eyes—cold, furious, wounded—had cut deeper than any blade. The scar on her neck burned itself into my mind, a thin reminder of how close I'd come to losing her. Of how close I'd come to becoming something else