POV: Maya
I did not sleep, I lay in my bed after my mother and I finally moved from the hallway floor to the kitchen table, after two hours of talking that left us both hollowed out and careful with each other, after she walked me to my room and stood in my doorway for a moment like she wanted to say something else and could not find the words. I lay in the dark and stared at the ceiling and let everything move through me in slow, heavy waves.
Edric Vane.. My father.. Executed. Aldric Black signed the order.
Liam's father. I pressed my hand over my left shoulder blade and felt the raised crescent mark through the fabric of my shirt. Seventeen years I had carried it without knowing what it was. My whole life built on top of a foundation I had never been told existed.
By the time the gre
