Chapter 128
Third Person’s POV
Finished
Cassian rose slowly, his voice low but cuttingly cold. “If my mother hadn’t brought up that sixty million, how long were you planning to keep me in the dark?”
Samantha’s eyes darted around. She stepped toward him in a panic. “Cassian, I already explained this. Howard forced me! I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want you to ruin your relationship with him over me
–!”
Cassian’s gaze lingered on her face for a long time.
He had just stepped away from the investigation. The brutal details were still etched in his mind, and while logic told him to be clinical, his wolf nature was surging. He loathed being deceived, and he loathed being manipulated.
He spoke, his voice not loud, but like a sharp blade pressed against a table. “Samantha, I don’t like people talking in circles. Give it to me straight–do you want money, or do you want ‘something else‘?”
Cassian deliberately emphasized the words “something else.”
It wasn’t an accusation yet, but it carried a warning, forcing her to lay her real cards on the table.
Samantha blurted out almost instantly, “I don’t want anything!”
Cassian didn’t back down. “Are you sure?”
Backed into a corner, Samantha straightened her spine, acting as if she were ready to lose everything. “Of course I’m sure!”
She started talking faster, as if afraid that stopping would expose a flaw. “If you think I came back for your money, then rest easy. The money is in your hands; I can’t touch it. From this day forward, I won’t use a single cent of yours!”
“And if you think I came back for you, you can rest even easier. I wasn’t worthy of you six years ago, and I’m even less worthy now. I have that much self–awareness-”
“We’ve been apart for six years. We’ve both found mates. Your Luna is noble and beautiful–a thousand times, ten thousand times better than me!”
“My mate is dead, and I have a child. Now, I just want to live for my son. I’m not chasing impossible dreams anymore!”
The more she spoke, the more she seemed to grind herself into the dirt, making it impossible for Cassian to push further. “I have to earn money for my kid, for his school… I have to take care of my mother, pay the rent, the utilities… I really don’t have the time or the energy to scheme against anyone-”
At that, she finally broke down.
The tears fell fast, washing away the hard edge she had just tried to maintain.
“Cassian, just tell Trista about Algernon’s identity-”

Every line of the investigation report reminded him: she had been crushed by life; she was standing at the edge of the abyss.
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