Chapter 222

Harper

My heart crushed against my ribs the instant I heard my name leave his mouth.

Harpenya.

There was something devastating about the way he said it—soft, steady, spoken like a truth he’d always known, like a name he had never once believed didn’t belong to him. The sound slid through the room, threaded through the air, and anchored itself beneath my skin. An icy shiver shot down my spine so sh