LOGINI knew the face looking down at me. I’d know it anywhere.“There you are,” Jason said softly. “I’ve got you now.”…Kieran’s POVThe talisman sat in my breast pocket, a small weight over my heart. I’d carried it around since I left the chapel, rehearsing what I would say. The apology first, then the
Charlotte’s POVI’d learned long ago how to wear the right mask at the right times.So I sat at the head table in a dress the color of dark wine, my husband on one side and his daughter on the other, and I smiled and lifted my glass every time someone rose to toast the newlyweds, and not one person
“I think Elena might be haunting me and Charlotte from beyond the grave,” I finally said, deciding to just get straight to the point.The priest pulled his head back.I sighed. “Every time the two of us get close, Charlotte collapses. Like the lights just… go out.”“Well, I do recall she suffered fr
Kieran’s POVSleep wouldn’t come.I laid in the dark for ages, waiting for an exhaustion that should have dragged me under hours ago. A full day and night in the dirt by the grave. Nothing in my stomach except for a sandwich that had gone down tasting like ash. My body should have succumbed to sleep
Charlotte’s POVI had walked these paths dozens of times before, but the darkness changed them. The moon was half-full and high in the sky, and the only sounds were the pebbles crunching under my feet and the wind moving through the trees up overhead.I pulled my cardigan tighter and kept walking, l
I did. I had been finding it strange for a while. But I didn’t like the direction his voice was taking.“What are you saying, then?” I asked.He rubbed his hands together slowly, staring at the floor.“I went out to the grave because I felt guilty,” he said. “I told you that. But there’s more to it
Charlotte was different, though. Nora didn’t just love her as a nanny; she literally called her “Mommy”. She loved her like a mother, trusted her like one, and the thought of Charlotte leaving one day… It clearly broke her heart.But she had to understand; if not now, then when she was older. I had
Charlotte’s POVI found the note when I woke up.“Charlotte: You may take Nora to one training session today. Stay with her the entire time. If anything happens, you must bring her back immediately. —Kieran”He was letting us go.I sat there for a moment, staring at the note.After last night, I had
“Trust me when I say this, Kieran.” I took a step forward and tucked my chin, looking up at him through my brows. “I would never be interested in a man like you. Not in a million years. In fact, you repulse me with your arrogance, cruelty, and selfish pride.”“Oh, please. I saw the way you looked at
She was gone before I could say anything, but the look in her eyes softened me somewhat. I didn’t even get a chance to ask her name, and yet, looking at her, I felt a strange connection to her, like we understood each other in a way no one else could.My stomach churned then, gurgling as if in remin







