False Familiarity

Briggs’s gaze passed over her briefly.

No change in expression.

No acknowledgment.

But the moment she crossed his line of sight, her steps tightened almost imperceptibly—the kind of reaction that only came from realizing she had been seen.

She kept walking.

Didn’t stop.

Didn’t look back.

The real Kaelen Draven stepped forward and leaned slightly toward Briggs, murmuring something only the g