BURNED EMPIRE
He made it sound like love, like longing, like an old woman just wanting to know her own blood before it was too late.
I hated how good he was at it.
Beside me, George kept still, but I felt his hand tighten on my knee every time Preston said the word "hidden," like each one landed on him too. Priya didn't react at all. She just kept writing small neat notes in the margin of her legal pad, waiting for her turn.