Chapter 30 One Breath Apart

• Callum wasn’t used to being followed.
• He was the one who stalked, cornered, and destroyed. The apex predator in every room. But something about the way Aurelia watched him from the passenger seat unraveled him from the inside out.
• She sat curled in the oversized hoodie he’d tossed her—his, of course—while his driver navigated through the quiet, early morning streets. Her eyes were distant, focused on a spot beyond the window, but her fingers fidgeted in her lap like she was holding on to something invisible.