Blood Ties

Bryce’s POV

The minute the words left Nyssa’s mouth, I felt like I had entered an alternative dimension where nothing made sense anymore.

“What the hell do you mean Valerie isn’t in the room?” I asked, repeating those words back to her, hoping they would be somehow different this time.

But Nyssa wasn’t one for tasteless jokes. Often she didn’t talk at all unless absolutely necessary.

She wouldn’t