13
Harper
They were here. They were whole.
Styx came through the door first, Blade directly behind. Styx’s green gaze met mine, held as he stalked toward me.
When I first met him on Zenith, when he’d approached me at the bar, he’d had the same intensity, as if there was no one else in the universe but me. It was unnerving then.
Now? Now, I wanted that unwavering attention. I wanted everything he could give me. Attention. Love. Obsession.
Maybe it was wrong or stupid or a hundred other things I didn’t want to think about or try to analyze, but for the first time in my life, I felt like someone saw me. I’d never really been alone in my life, surrounded by people who worked hard and fought as hard as I did. It took meeting Styx and Blade to realize I hadn’t been alone—but I’d been lonel
