~ NYSSA
My brows knitted in confusion at her words. "I don't understand what you mean."
She rose to her feet slowly, her expression neutral and cold. There was something off about the blank stare in her eyes and the way she seemed to look through me and not at me.
As she moved, Rowan quietly guided me behind him, his hand resting on my hip in a firm and protective grip.
"He knows what you are," she continued, voice airy and cold. "He does not like when people take what is his and he is coming for it."
"Marlene!" Evelyn hissed. "What the hell are you saying? It's weird, stop it."
Marlene paid no heed to her and instead took another slow step towards us. "The Nameless King is coming for you, and gods help you because he never loses. He will get what he wants and there is nothing you can do to stop it."
As if on cue, the door behind us burst open.
