I’m afraid someone else will get to her first.
Someone who doesn’t care about her safety.
Someone who already has his hands in her past.
Someone who knows exactly how to break her.
Chapter 16: Finn
Wren looks like shedidn’t sleep.
I see it the second I step into the hallway—she’s coming from the trainers’ office, shoulders curled, hoodie swallowing her frame, eyes shadowed like she spent the whole night fighting ghosts.
And losing.
She doesn’t notice me at first.She’s rubbing her thumb over her phone like she’s trying to erase something from the screen.Or from her head.
My stomach tightens.
Kael was off this morning too—too quiet, too controlled, which for Kael means something is wrong.And if he’s acting weird and she’s acting like this?
Yeah.Something happened.
I step closer, gently.Carefully.
“Wren?”
She jumps.
Not a cute startled jump.
Afearjump.
Like she thought someone was about to grab her.
My chest aches.“Hey, it’s just me.”
