Chapter 35

KAI

The next few days were hard. I could barely think straight. The whiskey I had been drowning myself in had done little to numb the pain. It had worked before. Whenever I was in pain and resorted to taking alcohol, it worked like magic to take the pain away. But this time was just too much for alcohol to the magic on. I had tried too many times to drown myself in it, but all I was doing was destroying myself because numbing the pain was not the solution to all of this.

Alina wasn’t listening, the council had completely turned their backs on me, and everything I had worked for was falling apart. I felt lost, like I was standing on the edge of a cliff, with no way to pull myself back. Nothing in my life was going well and the worst thing was that there was no one I could blame for this. Whenever I felt the urge to find the root of my problems, all I could do was look at myself in the mirror because I was the root cause of everything.

I’d wanted to talk to her, to make her see reaso