FINNAN

I didn’t expect her to come. Not last night. Not when fury was already strangling my chest and everything inside me felt ready to break bones and spill blood.

Those stupid guards Rowan sent to watch me, two of them almost lost their lives because I was seconds from snapping. I won't lie. I had pictured dragging them out and making them pay just to release something, anything. But even in that dark haze, I knew it wasn’t their fault. Rowan was the one pulling the strings. Killing ...