The Shadowed Burden

ROWAN’S POV

Then I drag myself up and into a long hot shower that turns my abused muscles from screaming to merely complaining, and I dress in soft clothes, and I feel almost human, right up until I realise I left my phone down in the training room.

On the bench, where I set it before Vance dragged me onto the mat. It’s been sitting down there for hours.

So I pad back down through the quiet house,