Chapter 640

• Gavin felt a sharp sting in his eyes as he squeezed them shut, a wave of exhaustion washing over him. Memories from his childhood surfaced like ghosts in the dark, dragging him back to the pain he had long tried to forget. His lips turned pale, and his breathing became uneven.
• Even though years had passed, the wounds of his past never truly healed. Every time he thought of those dark days, his emotions stirred violently. He remembered being locked away in Maple Garden, suffering under Lady Edna’s cruelty. The beatings, the insults, the isolation—it had all shaped the person he had become.
• In the suffocating darkness of that time, he had clenched his teeth and endured, refusing to break. But with every lash, every bitter word, the hatred in his heart grew like creeping vines, tightening around his soul.