Leo
"Can you all excuse us, please?" Ivy said, her voice calm, collected—too collected.
The members of her board exchanged glances before rising from their seats. Some murmured under their breath as they exited the room, their whispers grinding against my nerves. But I didn’t come for them. I came for her.
How could she be here? How could she not tell me?
I had spent the last week unraveling, losing my mind as I scoured every inch of the forest, every desolate place, searching for her. My men combed through the darkest corners of the city.
I even consulted the sorceress, desperate to track her down, to find out if Dina had taken her. But there was nothing. No trace. No scent. Nothing.
The sleepless nights, the hunger, the ache—it all consumed me. The darkness became my compa
