Lina's POV
"Do you have any idea how terrifying Damon is?"
I gripped Adrian's hand tighter, forcing myself to meet his eyes directly.
"If I told you that going to England means you'd get the best treatment possible—but you'd also face the darkest, most dangerous enemy imaginable—would you still go?"
I wanted to go with Adrian. And maybe—just maybe—he'd forgotten all about me by now.
In his endless pond of admirers scattered across the globe, I was nothing. Just a nobody.
A footnote. A gust of wind that blew through his dull, monotonous life for half a second before disappearing completely.
But tonight's nightmare... it brought everything back.
That bone-deep terror. The suffocating weight of it pressing down on my chest until I couldn't breathe.
"Sweetheart, I
