TERMS OF THE HEART
"You once told me control was never the same thing as safety. I think it's time you actually believed that about yourself, and not just about me."
Outside the study window, the city moved on the way it always did, indifferent and glittering, and somewhere in it, Vaughn Cole was almost certainly already preparing his next move — but for the first time since the manila envelope had arrived, I felt something steadier than fear settle into the space between Damien and me.
Not safety, exactly. Not yet.
But the beginning of something that finally looked like the truth, chosen freely, instead of a secret waiting to be weaponised.