Alexander:
Marcel answered on the second ring.
“I am sure that I didn’t expect your call anytime soon,” Marcel wanted to tease, but I had no mind in hearing whatever he had to tell me.
“I want you to listen carefully,” I said my voice was calm, but he knew that it was the one that came before the storm, the one that was deadlier than anything else.
it was the kind of calm that came before blood. “Lucien found us. He came to Alessia himself, cornered her, and caught her off guard.”
There was a beat of silence.
Then, sharply, “That’s not possible. He wouldn’t have known where you were. You were sure that no one knew.”
“I know,” I replied. “And that why I am annoyed that it happened at all.”
I stepped out onto the balcony, the city lights stretched below me like a living thing. Behind
