She looked away, a flicker of pain in her eyes. "I was in a dungeon, Nyx. I was being tortured. It's not like I was on vacation."
"I know, S. And I'm so sorry you had to go through that. But there’s no way anyone could have known that you were not really dead. You didn’t come back a month or six months later, you came back after three whole years. A lot has changed."
"He should have mourned me forever. We were soulmates, bound together by the moon goddess till death do us part," she said, her voice cold. "He should have waited for me. Instead, he moved on. And with the daughter of my captor. While I suffered for something I never deserved. The betrayal is just... it's too much."
I was starting to see the venom in her. The darkness that had taken root in her heart during her captivity. I
