Saoirse
I was tucked in the corner of the library, surrounded by dust and silence, flipping through a book I wasn't really reading. My mind was a storm, but the scent that rolled in before the door even creaked open? It drowned everything else.
Cain.
The air shifted.
He didn’t knock. He never did. He just walked in like the room owed him space. My spine stiffened before I even looked up.
“Cain,” I breathed out, my voice betraying the calm I didn’t feel.
He didn’t even glance at me when he spoke. “The Billies are coming tonight.”
My blood turned cold.
Jennie.
She couldn’t know. No one could. I wasn’t just some outsider here—I was their stepsister, and that little secret? It would burn everything to the ground.
Chloe already looked at me like I was a slut in heat trying to get her
