Chapter – NINA’S POV
As with everything good in life, it came to an end. Peace. Stillness. Even the illusion of friendship.
I had barely begun to heal, barely stitched the pieces of myself together after everything that happened. But life didn’t wait. Not for me, not for anyone. And reality? Reality came crashing in the form of a blonde five foot four girl… Summer.
She was here. In town.
Neither Chase nor her father knew. Not that I blamed them, she was good at hiding her presence. Despite my efforts to keep him away from it, Zane had somehow tracked her down to an abandoned building outside the northern edge of our territory.
A decaying structure with rotting beams and shattered windows, the kind of place children would dare each other to explore at night. Fitting, really, for a reu
