Gideon’s POV

Maybe I should’ve told her sooner. Maybe I should’ve handled it differently.

But when Serana showed up at the edge of the manor, soaked from the storm and shaking like a leaf, I hadn’t been thinking straight. She wasn’t just some fling or old flame—she was once a part of my life, a long, twisted ###chapter that had ended in blood and silence.

She claimed she was being hunted.

Said she had nowhere else to ...