Chapter 101

• Jace’s POV
• The sound of metal echoed across the gym, sharp and hollow, like the sound of a bell that wouldn’t stop ringing in my skull. My palms were slick with sweat, the bar pressing against them as I forced it upward one more time. My muscles burned. My chest trembled. But I welcomed the ache. The pain in my body was easier to carry than the storm inside my head.
• For days now, I had been…seeing things. Not visions exactly—at least I didn’t think so. Flickers. Shadows at the edge of my sight. A tree, footprints. And Zara—her very existence—it was like she held a truth no one else could see even herself.