LIV’S POV

They resumed arguing after Martha said something. It was like walking into a conversation that had started long before I even existed.

I stood there, numb and uninvited, watching the chaos unfold around me.

Everyone was talking at once. Aaron, the security team, and the woman I now knew as Martha Rhys. Their voices overlapped and were thick with accusation and pain. None of them noticed me.

I might as well have been wallpaper.

"What the hell were you thinking, calling her?" Kaelon's voice was a low growl, dangerous and sharp.

Aaron crossed his arms, unbothered. "Calling who?"

Kaelon's hands clenched into fists at his sides. "Don't play...