Heart of Steel

I kept thinking about what Tristan had said—every word felt like a heavy stone pressing down on my heart.

Tristan called it his battlefield—a place of power plays and schemes, fought without smoke or gunfire, but people still get hurt, and blood is still spilled.

I squeezed my eyes shut and told Declan, "Don't go after him. I broke up with him."

"When did that happen?" Declan looked genuinely shoc