Chapter 148

Rain’s POV

The whole ceremony was just stupid and it felt like a cage. Standing here and pretending that I give a fuck is even more annoying. I stood there, my expression schooled into something soft, something appropriately sad, something that might have fooled anyone watching me right. My lips trembled just enough to look mournful, my lashes lowered as if hiding tears.

But deep down? My blood boiled. My fingers twitched at my sides no matter how tightly I tried to hold them still. I could feel my heartbeat hammering against my ribs.

Failure. Failure. Failure.

One chance. That’s all I had. One last chance to end her. To end Sienna. To rip her away before she could sink her claws into everything that should have been mine. And I just ruined it.

The chanting reached its final verse, a