Deceptive Shadows

Kaelen’s POV

The warehouse smelled of cold concrete and the lingering, metallic tang of the corpse cooling at my feet. It was a tomb of rusted steel and shadows, and I’d spent hours pacing it. Outside, the city was alive, indifferent to the fact that I was waiting for a ghost. Malachi Thorne lay motionless, his lifeless body serving as the morbid bait I’d hoped would draw Thalia out of the woodwo