ELISA’S POV
"Azrien __" I started, but before I could say anything else, he cut me off.
"You want to feel normal?" He shook his head, his eyes flashing. “Normal doesn’t exist for you anymore, Elisa. Things are changing.”
His certainty made my chest flare with anger and frustration. “You don’t get to decide that, Azrien. You don’t get to decide anything for me. You’re not—” I stopped, searching his face, my voice breaking sharper. “You’re not my keeper. I barely even know you.”
Something shifted in his expression at my words, sharp enough to make me falter. His jaw tightened, his shoulders squared, and when he spoke, his words came low and colder than I'd ever heard it.
“Don’t say that.”
I blinked. “It’s the truth. Two nights ago, you came crashing into my cell like a storm, and now y
