Chloe's POV
Thorne was waiting in the eastern solarium when I found him, standing at the tall windows with his hands clasped behind his back, watching the training yard below like he had nowhere else to be and all the time in the world to be nowhere.
I'd never been alone with him before. I noticed that the moment I stepped inside and Sera closed the door behind me instead of following.
"Lady Chloe." He didn't turn immediately. "Thank you for coming."
"You said it was urgent."
"It is." Now he turned, and up close his eyes were a pale, unsettling grey, the color of a sky before snow. "I'll be direct, since I suspect directness is the only currency you trust right now."
My pulse ticked up. "Go on."
"I know Adrian believes I'm the one feeding information to Silverpine."
I kept my face
