ADAM Footsteps echoed beyond the walls. Not Kael’s. The sound was wrong too light, too deliberate. Whoever it was moved without fear, without hesitation. Someone who belonged here. A traitor. The thought sent a sharp pulse through my chest. I tried to turn my head, to track the sound, but my body didn’t answer. Not even a twitch. Heat still burned through my veins, slow and vicious, like poison refusing to settle. I lay there, breathing, counting each inhale like it might be my last. Kael leaned in close. I felt him before I heard him the warmth of his breath, the faint scent of iron clinging to him. “I can feel it,” he murmured. “That panic crawling inside you.” My jaw locked. My heart hammered harder, betraying me. “You’re thinking about it already,” he continued, almost amused. “About how I’ll do it. About what it takes to pull a heart from a living body.” My pulse thundered in my ears, drowning everything else. I forced myself to stare at him, to give him nothing. He l
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