Isadora’s POVCassian was sprawled across my bed like a fallen angel, half-conscious, his shirt rumpled and fingers reaching out to me with a drunken slur of my name.“Isadora?” he murmured, eyes barely open. “Why are you standing so far away?”The sound of his voice—so familiar, so heartbreakingly intimate—made my chest tighten. I froze.This was it. The moment everything went wrong in my past life.Cassian smiled, slow and lazy, as he tugged at the buttons of his shirt. “Come on, Isadora.”He looked like sin and temptation and everything I used to want.But I knew better now. I didn’t move closer. I took a step back instead.In my past life, Damian—my brother—had handed me that glass of whiskey tonight with a knowing smile. He knew I had a crush on Cassian, his dangerous, untouchable mafia friend.He’d poured Cassian a drink. Said it was to loosen him up.“If he doesn’t love you,” Damian had whispered, “What’s the harm in a one-night stand?”Back then, I’d been naïve. I’d believed C
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