Chapter 2168 Fragile Pride
- Volk stood a breath away from Autumn, heart pounding like fists on a locked door. There is so much I need you to hear—family, devotion, desire, every shade of love I own belongs to you alone. You are my only blood. My only woman. My single, blazing north star.
- The confession roared inside him, a volcanic surge begging for sky, yet the moment he opened his mouth, the words jammed—thick, immovable, wounded.
- Only that one warped word escaped before his tongue betrayed him, sealing the crater shut again. Ashamed, he lowered his gaze, the unsaid burning hotter than molten rock behind his eyes.