Chapter 417

LUMINA "What do you mean?" I asked, trying to keep my voice neutral. "The heart attack," he said. "The doctors say it doesn't make medical sense. You're young, healthy, no family history of cardiac disease. Yet your heart just stopped in the middle of a planning meeting." "Stress," I suggested. "Yesterday was traumatic. The school attack, seeing the boys in danger—" "Don't," Xenois interrupted. "Don't deflect. There's something else. I can feel it through our bond. You're terrified of something, and it's not Jerome." I looked at him—my mate, my partner, the father of my children. The man I'd died cursing in another timeline because I'd thought his neglect had killed our son. Should I tell him? Should I explain that I'd lived through all of this before? That I'd been given a second chance by a necromancer who was now coming to collect payment? "I had a strange dream," I said slowly, choosing my words carefully. "While I was unconscious. About debts and promises and—" I stopped, unsure h