Home At Last
Back then, I'd faked my death partly to escape that very feeling—a feeling I could never return.
People always develop feelings when they've been through the fire together. But I had only one goal: to leave. I could give him nothing.
I turned away, ready to drift elsewhere—when suddenly, a roar of fury erupted from the main courtyard. It was Nathan's voice. It drew me back like a magnet.
There he was, clutching a pale, trembling Vivian in his arms, barking orders at the servants, "Go get Master Channing!"
I knew that name. The most feared exorcist in the circles we moved in—ruthless, brutal, a man whose very reputation made people shudder.