Chapter 78
- Jace POV
- The first morning back after the two–week break felt wrong. The air around Blackwood Academy was the same as always—but the energy wasn’t. It carried whispers instead of laughter. Rumors slithered across the courtyard like snakes, curling between lockers, slipping beneath doorways, burrowing under skin.
- And every whisper had the same name threaded through it.