Worth a War

ROWAN’S POV

Not from Nalini, who only knows what a spy once told her. Not from Victor, who deals in secrets and rogues and has never once touched anything divine.

Not from Vance, whose hand tightens on mine because there is nothing he can buy or break or bleed for me here.

The silence stretches, and the gravity of things settles over the room, and I understand that I have finally reached the edge