A Lethal Calm

"Thank you—thank you!" Kieran's voice broke with relief.

He repeated the words again and again, as if each one could shore up the crumbling ground beneath him.

Sloane's fingers closed around Killian's, her grip firm, almost fierce, as though she could absorb his future pain into her own flesh.

"I'm sorry," she murmured as they left the hospital, "if Clara truly can't wait six months..."

Killian li