Kael drove them back to the safehouse in silence, both hands locked on the wheel, the phone call replaying in his head on a loop he couldn't shut off no matter how hard he tried.I loved her. Cassian's voice, calm and unbothered, talking about Lyra's mother like a man discussing an old photograph instead of a creature responsible for more deaths than Kael could count. It shouldn't have unsettled him the way it did. He'd spent his entire life hearing vampires described in exactly one shape, predator, monster, thing to be ended, and the voice on that call hadn't fit any of it. That was the part that scared him. Not the threat. The absence of one.He glanced sideways at Lyra, curled into the passenger seat with her knees drawn up, staring out at the dark highway without really seeing it. She hadn't said much since the call ended. He didn't push her to.The safehouse lights were still on when they pulled into the garage, and Marcus was waiting by the door before Kael had even killed the e
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