The Missing Piece

ROWAN’S POV

Vance stares at me for a long moment.

“Bleeding from her eyes,” he says slowly.

“Yes.”

“Rowan.” His hand comes up to my face, thumb tilting my chin, checking my pupils, and the frown digs in deeper. “That’s not — people don’t do that. That’s not a thing that—” He stops. Something flickers behind his eyes, some flinch of unease he shoves down hard and buries. “You took a bad hit to the