her fire. I loved everything about that girl. Even the parts she hated most. The parts I’d never seen before but had tasted in her blood—tales of violence and a deep, buried wrath. She had become my entire world. I couldn’t build this future I’d been working toward for decades without her by my side, without her laughter in my ear and her hand in mine. And gods, I couldn’t breathe right without Evie’s trust.
