KAIA’S POV
The words continued to echo in my head over and over as I stood there, and I didn't even know how to react to them.
I mean, I'm pretty sure they were spoken in simple English. There was nothing complicated about what I just heard. But still, for some reason, I was having a difficult time processing it fully.
Gasps echoed across the arena, followed by a shocking silence. My breath hitched in my throat as I stared at the symbol on Leander’s chest—something I had seen so many times before, yet somehow never really seen.
Something I had always thought was a random fancy tattoo.
I remember seeing it that first day he sparred with Jace in the training ground. And then a couple of times after that.
But now, under the moonlight, with every elder crowding in and Elder Edmond’s voic
