“Raven…”

The name fell from the stranger’s lips like it still belonged to them, like time hadn’t turned them into a shadow.

Her vision tunneled. “This ” she whispered, but the rest of her sentence caught in her throat.

The man standing under the dim hallway light was Adrian Cross.

Her first love.

The boy who had vanished without a trace five years ago.

The body they never found.

But there he was, very much alive, his sharp features harder now, his eyes unreadable… and his ...