Fiction or not, she’d embedded inside him, replaced the air in his lungs. That she’d proven to be real—more exquisite than he’d dreamed—and entirely ignorant of him, had been more than he could bear. To then discover that she’d given her heart to another—that he’d known her in ways Cyrus never would—had been nearly unsurvivable. And yet, it was the only reason he hadn’t killed Kamran that night.
