“Wait,” Raven said slowly, breaking the stunned silence. Her voice was low, exhausted, but clear. “Did Nyx actually tell you that Kaden and Xena are connected?”
I looked at her.
“No,” I said. “She didn’t have to.”
Raven frowned. “Then how—?”
“It was in the way she felt.” My fingers curled around the edge of the table as I tried to steady my own breath. “When I mentioned their names… it was like a wave. I could feel her pain. Bitterness. Anger. Hate. All of it was bleeding through her. And then she said something that confirmed everything for me—she said that Xena and Kaden took something from her. Something that seemed to have mattered to her a lot. And that she was going to make them pay for it.”
Alec turned his head, watching me closely. “Did Nyx tell you what they took?”
I shook m
