A Crown of Ashes
She stomped ahead, pine needles snapping underfoot, needing distance, needing air that wasn’t him—leather, sweat, that sharp edge that clung to her.
He followed, silent again, but she felt him—his eyes on her back, heavy, like a weight she couldn’t shake. The woods stretched on, dark and endless, and her fingers brushed the vial again—Dorian’s curse, her leash—and she wondered who the hell they’d smashed on that truck, who’d paid for her not running to the cliff road.
Hot Chapters