Veil of Secrets
Just the scuff of boots over gravel and ash, four distinct sets of steps, one after the other, echoing through the ruins like the damnation they always believed me to be.
I didn’t move. Kept carving the final rune into the wall with the blood-slick edge of my palm. The stone pulsed under my fingers, hungry for more. It took pieces of me as I fed it, pieces I’d never get back. Maybe that was the price. Maybe I was the price.
The first to step into the hollow was Ronan Draxmere. Of course it was.
His presence hit me like old war drums. That same lupine snarl beneath the surface, the same scent of frost and pine bark and dominance. He didn’t look like he’d come for peace. And I sure as hell was
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