SLOANE I heard the commotion the second Kade's car pulled through the gates. I'd been sitting on the edge of the bed in my room, pretending to scroll through my phone when really I'd been listening to the mansion settle around me for the past hour. Waiting…Worrying in that quiet way I did when I didn't want anyone to notice. Kade was back. Injured. I didn't need anyone to tell me that. I could feel it, this dull ache sitting somewhere between my ribs that didn't belong to me. I pulled on my grey oversized hoodie over my sleep shorts and headed for the door to check up on him but Damon was already there. He filled the entire doorframe. Black sweatpants sitting low on his hips, no shirt, arms braced on either side of the frame like he'd been standing there long enough to make himself com

