Nathan’s POV

The drive back to the hospital felt longer than the one that had brought me to the seer. Every word she’d spoken clung to me like a shadow, heavy, insistent, impossible to shake. Adina wasn’t just human.

Even as the thought circled through my mind, I still struggled to accept it. I’d loved her as she was fragile, fierce, compassionate but to think that something ancient lay within her, something powerful enough to draw witches and fate itself, unsettled me in ways I ...