I felt it in my bones before I saw him.

The moon captured his hair, making it look like a blend of brown and silver. His eyes scorched like two pools of heated steel, drilling holes through me as he moved toward me.

‘What do you want now, Aurelius?’ I thought to myself.

Was this part of his twisted plan? Why go through the stress of hiring me if he was just going to finish her off himself? Was he even here for her… or me?

I stilled my advances on Ryanna. Gauging what he would do ...