Raisel’s POV

Four Months Later

I’m at my desk, going through the motions, but my mind is elsewhere—circling around Mathew. He’s getting closer to Soren’s location, and that terrifies me. Last week, Fiora decrypted a coded message—it confirmed what I feared: Mathew is hot on their trail.

Killian’s gone dark, too, hiding from Mathew, who’s figured out that Killian is the one protecting Soren.

Even worse, Mathew managed to dig up enough evidence to implicate ...