Chapter 136

Ethan

There were things in this world I could handle, pain, betrayal, even death.

But not this.

Not her.

Not when I knew how wrong this was and yet no one I could not stop how I was feeling no matter how hard I tried.

I leaned against the stone column outside the west wing, my arms folded across my chest, watching the morning sun cut through the trees like knives of light. The air was cold, but it wasn’t the weather that made it hard to breathe.

It wasn’t the air that made everyone else chill about the round around feeling the heavyweight pressing on their chests.

It was her.

Sienna.

The woman that I saw when everyone else didn’t.

I had no right.

I’d told myself that every day. Every time I looked at her, every time she laughed, every time she smiled at Damon like he held her entire universe in his hands, I reminded myself that I had no right to feel the way I did. I reminded myself when she spoke to me that it