Silver Queen of Lunar Ridge
"And summon Cassian to my office immediately."
Understood, Principal," Gideon said, and the line went dead.
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I sat completely still in the leather armchair. Deep inside my chest, my heart was pounding wildly, but my face remained perfectly calm.
A heavy wave of phantom trauma tried to rise in my mind—the screeching tires, the crushing metal, the smell of copper blood from my first life. Cassian had used the exact same method to kill my family before. He was a monster who never changed. But this time, I was not a helpless victim trapped in a crashing truck. This time, I had caught him in his own deadly trap.