Mirellie
The growl seemed to echo through the dining room long after Evander stopped speaking. Calliope simply stood there staring at him. At first, I thought she was going to scream. Then I thought she might throw something. Instead, something far worse happened.
The fight left her. I watched it happen in real time. The anger drained from her face first, then the outrage, then the determination. What remained behind looked heartbreakingly familiar. Defeat. The same defeat I had seen staring back at me from mirrors countless times throughout my life.
“Okay,” she whispered.
Evander frowned immediately. “What?”
Calliope laughed softly, but the sound was wrong and broken. “I understand now.”
My heart sank. No. No, she didn’t. Whatever she thought she understood was only going to make t
