CASSIAN’S POVI’m not foolish enough to think that one conversation can make everything right, but I’m grateful for the little bit of quiet Nina’s promise has given me.But peace has never come naturally to me. Even with Nina beside me and the house finally quiet, some part of me is still waiting for the other shoe to drop.I stare up at the ceiling, thinking about everything and nothing at the same time. Some part of me already knows that Axel is my brother, but I’m clinging to the stupid hope that I’m somehow wrong.It feels like the walls are closing in, like any day I could wake up and realize that the ranch is surrounded by cops. Any day, Nina could slip through my fingers and be gone.The thought fills me with so much fear that my heart physically hurts, and it doesn’t help that my nightmares are back.In the past I’d found myself trapped in these nightmares where I couldn’t find my mother no matter where I looked. Now when I close my eyes, Nina is the one who’s missing. I can
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