Kayden's POVThe ride back to the fortress was silent.Nyx sat in the back of the jeep, staring out the window. Her face was blank. No anger. No sadness. Just… nothing.I wanted to reach for her. Touch her. Say something that would make it better. But I didn't know what.Silas got away. In all the chaos of Lyra running, he'd slipped into the dark like the snake he was. By the time we thought to look for him, he was gone.And Lyra was gone too. Running through the woods, probably heading straight back to him.We'd lost them both.I looked at Nyx through the rearview mirror. Her eyes were fixed on the dark trees passing by. Through the bond, I felt it. A heavy, crushing weight in her chest. Pain. Deep and old and fresh all at once.Not just from tonight. From everything. Her family. Her uncle. The woman she'd trusted turning out to be a snake. The stone in her heart.It was all sitting on her, pressing down.I wanted to help. I didn't know how.---We got back. The guards opened the gat
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