Kalev’s POV

I did not expect her to come. After everything we had laid out across the Architect’s table, the Well, the Purge, Thor, Viktor, I expected she would need some time alone. I could only imagine how exhausted she must have felt. Angry too.

So when I sent word just after dusk to meet me in the private woods for a moonrise run, I didn’t expect her to show up.

But she did. I was in the forest an hour later when I heard movement at the edge of the tree line.

The moon had just begun climbing over the eastern ridge. The silver light threaded through the canopy...