ADINNA’S POV
Something’s changed.
I can feel it before I even see it. It’s in the way the hallways go quiet when I pass, in the faint hum of energy that prickles along my skin whenever they are near. It’s like the air itself bends differently now, warping around the bond I don’t want to admit still exists.
Hunter.
Jace.
Salem.
Even when they aren’t speaking to me, I feel them like a heartbeat echoing somewhere just out of reach.
At first, I think it’s just me being paranoid. The ball still hangs in my mind like a fever dream, blurry at the edges but sharp where it shouldn’t be. I tell myself I’m imagining it, that I’m reading too much into things. But the universe has this funny way of proving me wrong.
It starts small.
Hunter walks into the training yard one morning, shirtless, s
