Calculated Secrets

ROWAN’S POV

There is something deeply unnerving about it. My stomach squirms, a bad feeling resurfacing and leaving a taste in my mouth I can’t swallow away.

Malachi feels it too. He turns the slightest fraction toward Vance, catching his stare for a second, and a subtle frown crosses his face — questioning, uncertain.

Vance’s grin only widens.

A chill runs down my spine. There is trouble here. I