LOGIN“CALLUM!”The shout came from the exhibition tents, where a knot of teenagers with entry numbers pinned to their shirts stood waving him over, and none of them bowed. He lit up and went.The house kids. His mother had been stripped of her rank, name, and pack, escorted to the border as a rogue. Call
Liora’s POVShirley, after a year of working on her, still sputtered to one final halt at the gates of the academy like she held a personal grudge against the entire place. I grinned as I put the car in park and turned to my husband, who was currently in the middle of prying his fingers off the oh-s
The question hung there in the dark. It was strange, even now, after everything we’d been through, to hear him say something so seriously. Despite everything, Zane always had a penchant for being the most humorous person in the room, or at least lightening everything with a bit of levity. This wasn’
Liora’s POV“Find him yet?”Callum shook his head, a little breathless. After two hours of dancing and drinking, his hair was slightly mussed and his tie had been lost somewhere along the way, leaving the top two buttons of his shirt undone.“No. But I asked one of the servers, and they said he took
“Part of her can.”His face crumpled, but he blinked the tears back. He tucked my hand into the crook of his elbow, cleared his throat, and led me out of the room.My bouquet was made entirely of white roses, cut that morning from the garden where he’d said yes all those months ago. As we stood in f
Liora’s POVWe buried my mother at the beginning of summer and planned my wedding at the end of it.My father laid her to rest in her uniform. Black fabric, black star on the shoulder, every medal pinned over her heart where the whole kingdom could finally see them.The stories got out within a week







