(Dominic’s POV)
The sun wasn’t even high yet, and already I felt like my chest was a loaded gun, ready to go off.
Sleep had been a joke. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her — Ava, standing under the moonlight, unaware I was watching.
And every time I opened them, I heard Caleb’s voice, taunting, mocking, like a poison burrowing deeper.
So when I headed to the training yard that morning, it wasn’t to clear my head. It was because I needed to hit something before I lost my damn mind.
But fate, as always, had other plans.
I barely made it past the center ring before I felt him.
Caleb.
His presence cut through the air like a blade, sharp and deliberate. And when I turned, there he was — leaning against the fence like he owned the place, arms crossed, and that same smug twist to his
