Jaxon’s POV
Layla never knocked on that door.
But I felt her presence, her unique scent in my nostrils. It made me feel a kind of awareness, the one gotten when the one person who can break you is out of sight.
Alice still stood in front of me, she was against the edge of the war and waited for my wordsas she just finished speaking.
“When Garrison falls, Alexander will finally be free,” she said, making me stare at her.
I couldn't breathe for a moment as the words were like a punch. Yet, they slid in slow and deep, as a blade will.
The only difference was this didn't cut, yet it tore through me without warning which was more dangerous.
I stepped forward looking at her, yet her expression didn’t change.
“You want to say that again?” She tilted her head, shrugging at my words.
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