Chapter 364. Done Giving Second Chances

Aurora’s POV

I looked at Maggie, my chest tight, my voice shaking not with weakness but with the weight of everything pressing inside me.

“I can’t believe this,” I said before she could open her mouth, my words spilling faster than my breath.

“I can’t believe that no matter how many chances I give you...no matter how many times I tell myself that maybe, just maybe, you could be better...you always prove me wrong. Every single time. I thought after everything that happened, after the betrayal, after the lies, after the pain Ashton dragged us all through, you were different. I thought maybe you were just... misguided, caught up in his games, tangled in his web. I thought maybe there was something worth saving in you. But now? Now I realize I’d be a fool to ever think that again.”

Maggie’s eyes flashed, and she took a step toward me, her voice sharp, rising, trembling with something that sounded like desperation. “Don’t you dare stand there and act like y