Fractured Loyalties
Aria's POV
Leaning against the glass, the night air presses down on me as I see the world beyond change from shadow to streetlight, one hazy brightness flowing into the next. We need whatever hours of peace we can discover; I should be sleeping, or at least acting as though. But my mind will not rest—not with Bianca's entrance altering everything.
Her offer still hangs, a required poison, the kind of transaction I have spent my life knowing better than to do. For Aria and Sofia, however, will I make any sacrifice—even if it means participating in a game with other like-minded Bianca players? She is dangerous, without a doubt, but her network might provide the freedom we have been battling for. And then there is Aria.
Aria has power concealed in softness; she is a s
