He’d Declared War

***Victor***

She looked away and didn’t answer. That alone set something vicious loose inside my chest.

“Hazel,” I said slowly, my voice low, tight, coiled like a warning shot, “if I have to repeat myself again, I’m—”

“It was Julian.” Logan’s voice cut in sharp and abrupt, like ripping a bandage off a wound that hadn’t even started healing yet.

Hazel still didn’t look at me. Her arms were fold