Avela’s POV
I didn’t sleep. Not even for a minute.
The whole night stretched out like one long, endless ache. I lay in the dark, staring at the ceiling, tears sliding down my temples and soaking into the pillow until there was nothing left to cry.
My eyes burned, my throat felt raw, but the pain inside my chest just kept coming in waves—sharp, crushing waves that stole my breath and made me curl into a ball under the covers.
I thought Cameron cheating on me had broken something in me. That betrayal had felt like the worst thing I could ever go through. But this? This was deeper. This hurt in places I didn’t even know existed. Because even after everything—after finding out Lucas had been lying to me for months, after discovering he was the CEO of LukeTech, the man who’d been pulling
