*Gemma*

“The audacity,” Raisa said with a shake of her head.

I waited at the door until Kael’s footsteps receded. Then I flopped onto my back on Raisa’s bed instead of my own to stare at the ceiling that was in desperate need of care. “I didn’t even realize I’d gotten my hopes up,” I confessed, feeling somehow more angry at myself than Kael and the information he might’ve forgotten to confess. “He tried to make a move on me in Dust ...