Chapter 15 Fifteen
- KAI
- The words echo in my head...someone higher. Not Alora. Not the men in suits. Someone else.
- My gaze sweeps the hall. My grandfather stands near the front, his posture straight, his expression proud, like a general surveying a battlefield. Beside him, Alora’s mother is laughing softly at something he says. Their heads lean close together, smiles sharp, polished.