Chapter 152 She Brought Peace, Then Fear

• FINNAN
• I didn’t expect her to come. Not last night. Not when fury was already strangling my chest and everything inside me felt ready to break bones and spill blood.
• Those stupid guards Rowan sent to watch me, two of them almost lost their lives because I was seconds from snapping. I won't lie. I had pictured dragging them out and making them pay just to release something, anything. But even in that dark haze, I knew it wasn’t their fault. Rowan was the one pulling the strings. Killing them wouldn’t have changed what he’d done.