Marked in the Middle
They were pure black, like twin voids that had swallowed the stars.
“Grayson,” I whispered.
He turned. And for a second—just a second—I saw him. The man who once stood beside me in the rain, who promised me a home, who said he’d never become his father.
Then he smiled, cold and hollow. “You shouldn’t have come back, Nora.”
Kael moved beside me, claws unsheathing. “She came to end this.”
Grayson raised his hand. Shadows rippled from his palm like a storm. “End it? There is no end. There’s only what’s left to burn.”
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