Chapter 154

• Dane
• Rounding the door, I walked out of my room into an icy chill down the corridor that clung to my skin, with the familiar echo of a violently slammed door ringing persistently in my ears. The fire behind Luisa's warmth too, were all behind me; but in my chest lingered the hurt caused by the shadow of her unwitting blank stare.
• With each step across the shining stone floor, my boots went thud, thud—a slow but steady exercise of vanquishing that kiss from my memory, that flash of fire, that electrifying sensation that had almost sent me over. There was silence inside the court house; towering walls and carved wolf heads stood silently as I entered my study, an audience to many dark secrets kept within varnished wood.