Kayden’s POV
The words just hung there in the dark room after she left. I’ll die soon.
My heart was doing this stupid, frantic drum solo against my ribs. I couldn’t get it to stop. A cold fear, the kind that sits deep in your bones, had me shivering even though the room wasn’t cold. It didn’t make sense. She was the Alpha Queen. She was brutal and hard and unkillable. But she’d said it like she was stating a fact, like the sun would rise. And the look in her eyes… there was no joke there.
I couldn’t just stand there. I pulled on my pants and a shirt, not even caring what they were, and ran after her.
I caught up to her in the main courtyard. She was a dark shadow moving toward the tree line. “Nyx! Wait!”
She didn’t slow down.
I jogged to fall in step beside her. “Talk to me. What doe
