Kalilah POV
I was crouched in the grass, guiding Niko’s hands through a knife form when I heard them whispering behind me.
“Don’t tell her yet.”
“She needs to know.”
I resisted the urge to sigh loud enough for them to hear. They were trying my patience—and I didn’t have much of that left today.
It still felt strange sometimes that I had students. Real ones. I was teaching the kids around here everything I could. Because they needed to learn—and fast. Danger was never far. And Axel? He would come. He’d track them down and force them to fight on his side, clawing his way to more power like he always had.
This was what it had always been about. Power. Control. And it disgusted me that I had ever been by his side. But even if I hated what he’d made of me, I couldn’t deny he shaped the fi
