KADE'S POV
I watched her walk away across the training yard, spine straight, refusing to let a single one of my warriors see how close she was to breaking, and something in my chest tightened in a way it hadn't in longer than I cared to admit.
Eight months. Eight months of tracking rumors that led nowhere, of standing in rooms full of intelligence reports about the Nightspire Court and forcing myself to focus on strategy instead of the woman I couldn't stop thinking about, and now she was here, in my own territory, hating me with the same fierce, unflinching conviction she'd used to threaten Ivy the day before. I should have expected it to hurt this much. I hadn't.
Bram caught up to her before she'd made it off the training grounds, falling into step at her side with the easy familiarit
