Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Silence Of His Vows: Kabanata 321 - Kabanata 324

The heavy, sickening crack of a neck snapping echoed over the roar of the underground crowd.Killian didn't step back. He stood over the massive Russian fighter, his chest heaving, sweat and blood dripping from his dark hair. The man at his feet twitched once, and then his body went completely slack against the chain-link floor.It was a death match. The only kind of fight Killian had sought out for the past three months. No referees, no bells, no submissions. Only one man walked out of the cage alive.The crowd screamed, a chaotic mix of money exchanging hands and raw, bloodthirsty adrenaline, but Killian didn't hear any of it. He looked down at his taped knuckles. They were split open, the white fabric soaked in dark crimson. The sharp, biting physical pain burned through his nerves. It was the only thing that managed to temporarily quiet the deafening noise in his head.Killian ducked through the metal doors of the cage and walked down the damp concrete corridor toward the locker r

LUNA POVMy fork hit the porcelain plate with a loud clatter.The sharp sound echoed across the long mahogany table, but it didn't even slow him down. The heavy thud of his boots just kept moving against the hardwood floor.He was leaving. After hiding from me for three entire months, he had sat at my table, eaten his food in absolute silence, and was now just walking away again.I sat there for a few seconds, staring at his empty chair. My chest rose and fell. The suffocating weight of the last four months—the weeks of cold isolation before the fire, the agonizing night he left for Italy, the sheer terror in that drawing-room—boiled up into my throat all at once.Something inside me finally snapped.I pushed my chair back. The wood scraped harshly against the floor."Killian."My voice came out sharp, cutting through the quiet dining room.His boots stopped. He froze in the archway, but he didn't turn around. His broad back just faced me, completely unmoving.I took a shaky step towa