Ember Frost’s POV

I kept going back to the idea of keeping things from Henry, but it never held up. Every angle I tried ended up the same way. The only way to truly keep him out of it would be to send him far away for a long time—and that wasn’t something I could decide so easily.

I let out a slow breath. “There’s no clean way to handle this,” I murmured. “Trying to push him aside now would only make everything harder later.”

The truth was simple—Henry wasn’t on the edge ...