Chapter Seventy-Two

“...What’s her name?” I found myself asking politely, though I didn’t really feel present.

Truthfully, I didn’t feel much of anything. My body had gone completely numb, falling into autopilot responses as I struggled to come to terms with what Cai had just told me.

He found his mate.

But he was only nineteen. He shouldn’t have found her so soon.

‘Caius knight dies at the age of twenty-one with no Luna, mate or child’. That was the future for Cai I had known. Yet somehow this timeline had changed enough that he had met her earlier. It was a cruel slap in the face as reality reminded me, once more, that it would refuse to ever let me be happy. Even for just the few years I thought I might have had with him.

“Caitlyn,” he replied awkwardly. “She seems… nice. Sweet.”

‘Nice’? Really? That was the best he could say about the woman