NIRELLE

Dinner is awkward, but it seems like I am the only one feeling out of place. Lucien, Theo and Zane seem to be having the time of their lives recounting how they lived when they were in school and all of the fun things they had done together. While they seemed to live life, all I did was suffer in pain. It seemed like I was the only one who worried about the Cassian case hanging over our heads.

"Are you okay?" Lucien's voice in a whisper was carried to me through the laughter around the ...