Who is watching?

ARIA

I'm watching you.

I'm watching you.

I'm watching you.

The words echoed in my head, bitter and insistent, twisting in my chest like a knot I couldn't untangle. Who was watching me? And why?

It had been almost a day since I found the red envelope sitting neatly on my desk, its message scrawled in bold, taunting ink. And yet, no matter how many times I turned it over in my mind, I still had no clue who had left it. And what exactly were they trying to do? Warn me? Inform me?

A sudden honk snapped me from my thoughts. Niko cursed under his breath as he swerved, narrowly avoiding a car that had cut into our lane. My pulse jerked, but Kael? He just watched, amused, like the chaos of the world never touched him.