Aria POV

The hotel room door slammed like a gunshot. The echo seemed to tremble in my bones. For a second I couldn’t breathe.

“Say something,” I muttered into the quiet. “Please… just say something.”

“He used us both,” Julian finished. His jaw clenched. “And he wanted you to see it. This is a declaration.”

My hands shook. “What are you going to do?”

“End him,” he said simply.

I grabbed his arm. “If you go after him now, you’ll play his ...