The iron gates of the Moonfall estate clicked open as Ivy made her way in. The courtyard was exactly as she had left it the day she'd had those gaudy velvet furnishings purged, but the air was different today, it was thick with tension.
Ivy walked up the cobblestone path towards the entrance of the house, she had intended to head to the library and wait there for everyone to arrive, but as she rounded the stone fountain, she ran into Adrian in the middle of the courtyard.
They both froze, and the space between them instantly turned cold as Ivy began glaring at him.
After five long months of not seeing each other, the changes in them were quite profound. Adrian had shed the last remnants of his youthful softness; the boy who she'd known since their younger days was replaced by a
