[Luna]
“What do you mean by kill?”
The word felt wrong in my mouth. My voice came out higher than I intended, edged with something close to panic. “For heaven’s sake, Kain! Camilla can be naughty, unreasonable, sometimes even border on cruel, but she’s still my daughter. My child.”
Kain was fuming mad, the kind of rage that made his whole body tremble. The kind that wasn’t interested in listening to reason or sense or anything resembling rational thought. I recognized that look. I’d seen it on Nicolo’s face more times than I could count, right before he did something violent and irreversible.
I couldn’t let this spiral, not like this.
I reached up and held his face in both hands, forcing him to focus on me instead of whatever dark thoughts were consuming him.
“Look at me,” I said fir
