Chapter 401

Kaelen's POV

Gideon didn't knock like a man bringing good news.

He stood in the doorway of Raina's hospital room with a folder under his arm and rain still on his coat. I knew that look. It was the same one he wore when a problem had stopped being theory and started having a face.

Raina was awake. Sitting up. Pale, bruised along one side of her collarbone, but sharp-eyed in the way that meant she