Nadia I felt a twinge of pain creak through my heart. God, this would all have been so much easier if Kael was just a bit more of an asshole. It was hard for me to keep up an angry head of steam against someone who insisted on being ashamed and apologetic. If only he would stop pushing for us to reconcile. It wasn’t as if anything about our former relationship was salvageable. He’d made sure of that himself. “Kael…” I said miserably, then gave up and groaned, wishing we could both just disappear. I buried my face in my hands, trying to gather myself. My lack of sleep was beginning to wear on me, nibbling away at the edges of my brain and undermining my strength. It made it all the harder for me to push down the storm of emotions that kept roiling through me as this confrontation

