SKYE POV - CHAPTER 39
The wind doesn’t tear through the clearing blindly.
It circles.
Measured. Controlled. Familiar.
I feel it before I see him—the shift in pressure, the way the trees lean inward like they remember who they answer to.
Skyler feels it too.
She exhales slowly beside me. “Well… I’ll be damned.”
Jay stiffens. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
From the tree line, Xander Windsor steps into the clearing like he’s walking back into a memory he never finished burning down. The wind coils lazily around his shoulders, tugging at his jacket, lifting loose dirt at his feet as if the earth itself is curious whether he still belongs here.
His eyes lock on Skyler first.
Always Skyler first.
“Still can’t stay out of trouble,” he says flatly.
She tilts her head, lips curling. “Fu
