Aria's POV

Weeks passed from the day of our execution, but not even the break of a new day after another could wipe away the sting of Kael's cruelty.

He might have let us escape, doing nothing while Levi cut through his ranks and also refusing to chase us, but that didn't excuse the fact that he had planned to take my life in the first place.

The coldness in his eyes on that day was seared into my memory, the hate that claimed his features for me as he looked right into my eyes.

Every act ...