3rd Person's POV

Relief settled in Winter’s chest when she finally reached her husband and at last they could speak. Then her gaze shifted and she saw Kallias Thorn standing in the same room.

The calm expression on Winter’s face vanished at once, replaced by sharp caution as her eyes narrowed. Her body stiffened, instincts rising unbidden.

What was he doing here?

“Kallias?” she said slowly, testing the name, as if half-expecting the figure before her to dissolve into illusion.

He ...