LYDIA POVThe silence that stretched between us in the freezing gloom of the cell was thick, suffocating, and heavy with the weight of seventeen lost years.Alexander stood entirely motionless, his broad hand still suspended in the air inches from my face. The dim, icy moonlight spilling down through the high stone air shaft illuminated his features—the sharp, carved angle of his jaw, the faint scar crossing his eyebrow, and the twin spheres of blazing, supernova silver-gold light burning in his eyes.He was staring at me as if I were a phantom conjured by the mountain wind.Slowly, the shock on his hard face melted into a sudden, incredulous twitch of his brow. He let out a breathless, dry laugh—a sharp, raspy sound that rattled against the cold stone walls of the vault."Okay..." Alexander breathed, shaking his head as he stepped back, running his blood-stained palm over his dark, unruly hair. "Okay, this isn't good. Upon meeting my sister, she was kidnapped... and now I meet you, s
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