Chapter 37

• Clark
• I hadn’t been able to sleep for days, my mind constantly racing. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Raven—her smile, her fire, her fierce determination to see her revenge through. And I saw the guilt, the secret I carried like a heavy chain around my neck, threatening to strangle me with every breath. The closer we got, the harder it was to keep up this facade. I wanted to tell her everything, to come clean, but I couldn’t. Not when it could tear everything apart.
• She trusted me now, in a way that I never thought possible. Somehow, amidst her revenge plot, we had grown closer. I wasn’t just a tool she used for company or pleasure anymore—I could feel it in the way she looked at me, the way she leaned on me when she thought no one else was watching. She needed me, even if she didn’t say it out loud. And that only made the guilt worse.