Marked by the wrong mate.
“He’s not mad at you, Maya. Not in the way you think. He’s mad at himself. He’s scared, and Kael doesn’t do fear well after what happened to Andrea.. It comes out as control. Orders. Anger.”
I stared at my hands. “That doesn’t make it okay.”
“No,” Rowan said quietly. “It doesn’t.”
The silence stretched again, but this time it felt different. Not painful. Just full of things we weren’t quite ready to say yet.
Then, out of nowhere, it happened.
A flash.
A memory—or something that felt like one—slammed into my mind like a door swinging open too fast.
Marta.
We were standing in a field I didn’t recognize. She was laughing. I was smiling. Behind her, carved into an old stone, was a glowing symbol
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