Chapter 133
Third Person’s POV
Cassian stood among the crowd of parents in his black business suit, his tall frame and stoic, controlled aura making him impossible to miss.
He was down on one knee, tying Algernon’s shoelaces with a focus that was unusually patient.
Once finished, he ruffled the boy’s hair and scooped him up into his arms, his voice dropping into a natural, low rumble. “Mom’s tied up with work today and couldn’t make it.”
He paused. “Tell me what you want for dinner tonight.”
Algernon leaned against his shoulder, his eyes suddenly lighting up. He pointed a small hand across the street.
“Trista!”
Cassian’s gaze followed the boy’s finger.
Trista was standing there in the fading twilight.
Her tall figure was wrapped in an off–white coat, her long hair cascading over her shoulders like polished silk, the ends curling slightly.
Across the short distance, their eyes locked.
For a heartbeat, the air shifted.
Trista’s expression didn’t flicker.
She raised her phone with a steady, clinical precision–focused, and hit the shutter.
On her screen, Cassian was captured holding Algernon at the gates of the development center. The shot was clear and complete–a cold, undeniable piece of evidence.
She tucked her phone away without giving him a second look.
Cassian’s eyes darkened.
In that instant, his Alpha aura flared like a struck match, surging from within.
He handed the boy off to the driver and started toward Trista, his stride steady but carrying a frantic edge he couldn’t quite suppress.
But before he could take more than a few steps, Trista had already climbed into a taxi.
The door slammed, the taillights flashed, and she vanished into the stream of traffic.
Cassian stopped dead. He watched the direction she disappeared in, his knuckles whitening as he balled his hands into fists.
The lingering trace of her familiar scent was quickly swallowed by the city’s grime, leaving only his own pheromones to sink into the cold wind–sharp and hollow, like a night in the Ironthorn territory.
Three years of a mating bond, and six months of being worlds apart.
Now that they were face to face, silence laid over them like a thin sheet of ice, covering every emotion that should have exploded.
Perhaps neither of them expected to reunite like this: at the gates of a kindergarten, surrounded by noisy parents, while he was holding another woman’s child.


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