Liora POV I was in the shower when I heard a beep from my phone. I was surprised; who would be texting at that hour? Definitely not Nina. I got off the phone with her not quite long. I went to my room to check who that was only to find out the message was coming from Ravenna. I stared at my phone screen for so long that my phone screen went dark. I wasn’t expecting her message after everything she has done. My first instinct is sharp and immediate—block the number and erase whatever thread is still connecting me to that woman. Ravenna has put me through a lot so I don’t owe this woman a second of my attention. Yet I hesitate. Something about the message bothers me enough to reply. After everything that has happened, after every decision Ravenna made that damaged my life, the

