Chapter 135

Kelly POV

The room was silent, heavy with everything that had just happened. Davis’s body had already been taken by the ambulance, leaving behind a strange emptiness that made it feel like the violence had never fully belonged to this place.

Clara stood across from me, still and unreadable. Her hands were empty now, the gun long gone, but she didn’t look relieved. If anything, she looked lost.

She kept staring at me like she couldn’t understand it, like she was trying to figure out why I had stopped Lucian and Adrian from taking her away. As if that decision didn’t make sense in the world she was standing in.

And for a moment, neither of us spoke.

“…Why?”

Her voice was hoarse, barely audible.

I held her gaze, my hands still trembling at my sides.

“Because I know what it’s like to someone you love.”

Clara inhaled sharply.

I saw it in her eyes, the understanding that finally clicked into place. For so long, she had see