Tanya’s POV
It wasn’t the cold that made my skin prickle.
It was him.
The air between us had shifted the moment Tion stepped out of the shadows, breaking whatever unspoken and invisible boundary had existed between us since he had dragged me here the first day. After that, he’d always been there…in the corner of my eye, at the far edge of the yard, high above in the balcony shadows but never actually in front of me.
Never close enough to speak my name.
I’d gotten used to how things were. The way he watched without speaking, measured without moving. He was a constant I could rely on not to interfere. A storm on the horizon you knew was there but wasn’t headed for you yet.
But tonight…tonight the storm had changed course.
My heart beat hadn’t slowed since he said my name.
I’d trained
