KIERAN'S POV

~ 4 days to the ancient rites

I couldn't just sleep peacefully all through the night . I lay awake until the early hours, listening to the palace breathe. Every time I tried closing my eyes to sleep, Lucas’s face would appear in my vision like smoke: the way he was looking at Sienna with so much care and admiration. A look that was not brotherly. A look that sat with its own kind of ownership.

I told myself things I wanted to ...