Unbearable Shadows
The heavy iron bar scraped across the wooden doors with a deafening sound.
Cassian slammed the bar down into its side cradle. He pushed the heavy oak doors of the library vault open into the morning corridor.
The storm outside had cleared, leaving only pale sunlight streaming through the high arched hall windows. The cold air in the hallway smelled of snow and wet stone.
Cassian did not look back at me. He stood straight and rigid in his steel armor, staring down the empty corridor like a statue.
"The storm has passed," Cassian said in a cold, emotionless voice. "The guards have shifted to the lower yards."
I stepped out of the library tower behind him, wrapping my grey cloak tightly around my chest.
The heat from his kiss was still burning on my lips. My heart wa
