Chapter 21: One way

Chapter 21: Chapter 21: One way

For a second, the balcony held them in clean night air and distant city light. Behind Mezos, through the glass, the reception hall glittered on, filled with people pretending not to watch anything while watching everything. The palace ether lights made the stranger’s red hair look darker at the edges, almost wine-bright, which Liam privately resented because it matched the evening far too well.

Mezos’s gaze moved, assessing him once.

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