CORAI wiped Cade’s forehead with the wet linen and pressed it gently to his skin again, he was burning up, the heat seeping into my palms no matter how often I rinsed the cloth. His breathing stayed shallow but steady, and every rise of his chest eased something tight inside me.I smiled despite myself, thinking back to how he’d woken up on the road, or how we thought we’d woken him. I still didn’t know if it was the holding of hands or the things we said about him, or if his body had simply decided to fight its way back, but part of me wanted to believe the words mattered. I wanted to believe he heard us.Ronan sat across from me, close enough that our knees nearly touched, but he might as well have been somewhere else. He didn’t look at Cade, didn’t look at me, his attention fixed on the open side of the carriage, his shoulders tense like he was waiting for something to go wrong.The wheels creaked as we moved, the path uneven, the night thick around us.“Liam,” I called, leaning f
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