Chapter 37

• “Ava, you don’t understand,” Lowan’s voice broke through the tense silence, his eyes wild with something I hadn’t seen in him before. Guilt. Pain. “I didn’t want this. I didn’t want you to get involved.”
• I couldn’t breathe, the weight of his words pressing down on my chest. I stepped back, my heart thundering as I tried to make sense of the storm building inside him. Lowan had always been the strong one, the one who wore his calmness like armor. But now? Now, he looked like a man on the edge of something that could shatter him.
• “What do you mean?” My voice was hoarse, a part of me afraid to ask, to truly hear the answer.