Chapter 7“Seriously, I’m okay, Cass,” Aiden sighed. “I’m just going to take a shower and lie down. I’m tired. And I have a lot to think about.”
“I don’t like leaving you like this.” Cassandra was still hovering in the doorway of his apartment, hands on the doorframe as if she was trying to keep him from bolting. “What if…” She let go of the wood with one hand to move it vaguely up and down in front of her chest. “It happens again?”
Aiden shrugged. “Then Eskandar will come. Or the divine will send someone else.”
Cassandra’s eyes were big, soft pools of misery. “To kill you.”
“Yeah, probably.” Right then he wasn’t even sure he cared. He pulled in another breath and even that seemed to take effort. “I just want to sleep.”
“What do you mean, ‘sleep’? Are you giving up? Do you want to die?
