Torin Pov
“Go be with your Luna, and leave me the hell alone.”
Her words hung in the freezing alleyway, cold and lethal. Harlow didn't look away. Her dark eyes were completely deadened, stripped of the fire and desperation she’d had just minutes ago. She was looking at me like I was exactly
the same as my father.
My chest caved in. I opened my mouth, desperate to tell her it was all just a lie and I didn't give a damn about Vanya or the Council, and that the only reason I took the Luna patch back was to stop Silas from exiling her into the woods.
But I couldn't. Silas had eyes and ears everywhere. If I admitted the truth out loud, word would get back to the Old Guard before sunrise, and my political stalling would collapse. I had to swallow the truth like broken glass.
Before Loe cou
