Warlock Ch 230. The Hero Turned Villain
The bond was real, yes. The contract was there, binding them in more ways than one. But to him, it felt more like a contract marriage than anything else—a transactional relationship wrapped in layers of emotion and manipulation. He scoffed quietly to himself. 'How ironic… one moment, she's making me feel like I'm the only thing that matters to her, and the next, I find out she's keeping critical things from me.'
His fingers tightened into a fist at the thought of Seraphis. 'At least she should've given me a warning. A warning would've been enough.' That single thought kept repeating in his head, gnawing at him like an itch he couldn't scratch. It wasn't the danger that bothered him—he'd faced worse before, and he knew how to handle himself. It was dishonesty. The fact that she hadn't trusted him enough to tell him what was coming. He didn't expect her to spill every detail of her plans, but something like that? Yeah, he deserved to know.
