Chapter 42: Callum’s Confrontation
Callum’s POV
The house was awake.
It had been watching. Waiting.
And now, it was ready.
The chandelier shattered above us, glass raining down like shards of ice. The fire in the hearth roared higher, stretching toward the ceiling. The air itself shifted, pressing in from all sides.
And then, deep within Everdawn—
A door creaked open.
Emma gasped. Nate grabbed her wrist, his eyes darting toward the hall. “Tell me that was the wind.”
But we all knew better.
It wasn’t the wind.
It was him.
Silas Ashford.
I had spent years trying to stop this moment. Trying to keep Everdawn’s secrets buried, trying to keep Emma from becoming his.
But I had failed.
Because Everdawn never forgot.
And neither did he.
A House That Calls You Back
Emma’s breathing
