His eyes softened, but they didn’t lose that strange intensity—that flicker of something ancient and powerful behind them.

“I didn’t mean for you to find out like this,” Bryson said quietly.

I folded my arms with my body still shaking. “What did you mean to happen or how do you want me to find out? That I’d just go on being some girl you visit between the shadows after all that just happened in front of me without being surprised, shocked and all?”

He ...