Chapter 79: Aira's Turmoil

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CHAPTER 78

~Aira's POV~

The wind felt colder today, harsher somehow, biting at my skin as I stood near the window, staring out at the vast expanse of the woods—the same woods where Tempest had stormed off not long ago. 

I could still feel her frustration and pain in the air. My heart clenched, knowing that I was partly to blame for what she was going through.

It always came back to Koda.

I turned away from the window, my chest tightening at the mere thought of him. He had loved me once—or at least, he thought he had. 

And for years, his devotion had been a source of strength for me, a lifeline I clung to when everything else in my life felt like it was slipping away with my mate. But now that lifeline had become a chain, binding me to something I couldn't fix.

I had to let him go.