Out of the Shadows

CASSIAN’S POV

Thick sheets of rain battered the windshield. The wipers thrashed back and forth in a frantic rhythm, struggling to clear the flooded glass. The city streetlights blurred into distorted streaks of gold across the dark road. I navigated the empty streets, my hands locked like vices onto the leather steering wheel. A restless, dark unease tightened my chest, a physical pressure making