Kara’s POV
I always thought loyalty was simple.
You find your people, you love them, and you stand by them... But loyalty gets messy when secrets creep in... And right now, I had a storm of secrets swarming around me.
Leena was like a sister to me, I watched her grow from a shy girl with bruised dreams to a queen standing beside Ethan Grayson, powerful and glowing like a star that finally found its sky.
And still… part of me missed the Leena who used to hide under my wing.
I pressed my forehead to the cold mirror in the powder room of the Stanford estate..My reflection looked tired not from lack of sleep, but from carrying too much.
Then I heard his voice behind me.
“You look like a woman trying to hold the world on her shoulders.”
I turned slowly.
Willis,
I hadn’t seen him in m
