Aria’s POV

Rhea ran in after me into my room. She hadn't been in the hall when I met Kael, but judging by the worry that wrung her brows tight over eyes equally trembling, she had been briefed.

I had expected her to rebuke me for still continuing the war, but her first words were. “Why didn't you tell him, Aria?”

That unexpected question had me spinning back to her, though my initial plan was to avoid her and her long talk of forgiveness and love and giving the bastard another ...