Chapter 75

Ariezel

Present day

I stood, stuned at Asher's words.

Goddess. What was I supposed to say to this?

It was already a shock, learning that somehow, I was the one who had the power to sever our bond.

To take him back again? To give him another chance? It should hae all been ludicrous. I didn’t have to do so after everything he had done, and I had already told him that we couldn’t go back.

Yet why did my heart still ache at his words?

I looked down to the ground of the garden. A place that once filled me with joy was now a maze, filled with a myriad of sorrows, joys and confusion.

I almost had the urge to bring my hands up to my sight, if not for the will to keep utterly still under Asher’s gaze.

I was now the one in control. No longer a bystander nor a victim waiting for the pain to happen. This time, I was the one who held the choice to go through with it.

In my hands. I was the one who could end all of this. If I went to the pack priestess right now and told her to sever Asher and