LUCA—“I am almost on my way,” I whisper yelled the second I picked up the call, my voice low and tight like I was trying to hold my chest together with sound alone.Losing Stella already felt unreal. Like my mind had stepped away to protect itself and left my body to deal with the damage. And now the damn phone would not stop ringing. Every vibration felt like another piece of bad news lining up to finish the job.“Luca,” Kingsley said, and I did not like the tone of his voice. Not one bit. “We have more bad news.”I stopped walking.“What news could possibly be worse than what you just told me,” I snapped, anger bleeding through because I could not afford fear right now. “Stop dancing around it and say it.”There was a pause on the line. Too long.“The former Luna is dead,” he said carefully. “She collapsed when she heard about Stella.”My breath punched out of my lungs.“Heavens,” I muttered. “Who told her. Was it you. And are you absolutely certain she is dead.”“Yes,” Kingsley r
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