Sera Pov

I couldn’t breathe. Not since Kael had me pinned against the wall, his hand beside my head like a cage I didn’t want to escape from.

His voice was low, broken, and desperate that still echoed in my ears and haunted my mind.

Why him? Why Luca?

I pressed my back harder against the cool plaster of the hallway wall long after he stormed off, as if the wall could help me.

My pulse was beating frantically like a drum in my throat, my wrists. My skin still burned where ...