Raven's POV I slammed my door shut behind me, my breath coming in quick, shallow gasps. My heart felt like it was trying to claw its way out of my chest, the adrenaline still surging through my veins from what I just did. From what I had just seen. Rowan’s journal. His secret. The truth he had been hiding. I wasn’t able to read everything, but what I read made my stomach twist violently, and I barely made it to the side of my bed before I collapsed onto it, gripping the sheets as if they could steady the storm inside me. My mind was spinning, trying to make sense of what I had read, what little of it I could understand. “You must cleanse the line, Rowan. But know this, every generation that has tried has failed. Most didn’t even survive the attempt. That is the curse for breaking

