Nolan:
She walked away from me again.
This time, it wasn’t out of defiance, or anger, or some sharp remark tossed over her shoulder.
This time, she walked away because Mira showed up, uninvited and too perfectly timed, and Natalia, ever the proper Luna, let it happen.
But I saw the way her shoulders tensed.
I saw the flicker of disappointment in her eyes.
I knew that she might not have wanted to go out at all. Her forgetting about it, the idea of her wanting to stay meant a lot more than she would understand. And now she was going with her.
She had softened for a moment. Let herself laugh, move freely, exist without walls. I’d watched it from across the training grounds, and for one damn second, it had felt like peace.
But now?
Now it was gone.
The moment Mira opened her mouth, t
