You ought to have let me know.
My voice harsh as I turned to Luca, the words slipped past before I could stop them. The training yard was vacant, broad shadows of the faint moon spreading across the ground.
Luca tightened his jaw and narrowed his grey gaze. "Told you, Aria what?" Every choice I make seems to be teetering on the brink of a razor. One mistake might demolish everything we have created."
"Yes! I turned back, my anger bubbling up. Luca, you are not allowed to exclude me. Not when the foundation of everything we do relies on this link to function.
He stepped in front, his presence intimidating. "This link is the only thing holding us together; should it break—"
Then perhaps it wasn't powerful enough to start with, I said, the words biting more than I meant.
The stillness that followed was deafening; the tension between us thick enough to suffocate might kill. Luca's hands closed at his sides, his wrath hardly restrained.
