Chapter 21

Syria’s POV

The silence stretched. I couldn’t stop staring at him, trying to decipher the truth. Was this the man behind the message? Or someone sent in his place?

I wanted to ask him who he was and what he was doing here. The words sat on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn’t bring myself to speak.

There was something strange about him, something oddly familiar that kept me frozen in place.

He didn’t look like someone I’d met before, but something about his presence tugged at a memory buried d