Killian
I wasn’t used to being thrown off balance. Not in business, not in life. But Nova Vale did exactly that. She’d looked me dead in the eyes, her voice sharp with anger, and told me she’d sell her soul for her mother. And I believed her. Hell, I saw it in the way her hands shook when she spoke, in the way her chest rose and fell like she was holding back everything inside her.
She wasn’t lying. She wasn’t playing a role. She was just… raw. And I hated it. Because raw emotions were dangerous. They made people weak. And weakness had no place in my world. Still, I couldn’t shake her words. “She means that much to you?” I had asked like a damn fool. As if the answer wasn’t obvious.
Of course she did. Nova had nothing, no one, just her mother. And yet, she stood here in my house like sh
