SONG OF THE CHAPTER: Take me away by Daniel Caesar and Syd.

IVARA'S POV:

The night is the only time I can breathe.

When the camp is asleep, when Kael’s lieutenants aren’t hovering, when the weight of a hundred eyes isn’t glued to me with suspicion or pity. Out here, under the stretch of moonlight, the shadows feel like a shield instead of a cage.

I tug my jacket tighter around me as I slip past the fire pit, the embers glowing like angry eyes in the dark. Every step I take away ...