Whispers Before the Moon

Previously

…I, too, felt that suspicion, but it was warring with a desperate hope, a desperate love for the man who had just revealed a truth that shattered my world. He was not human. He was powerful. And he had brought the darkness to our doorstep. The question that echoed in the sudden, heavy silence was no longer about his origins, but about what we would do now, facing a threat that was both ancient and intimately connected to the man I had fallen in love with. The glimpse of his power had been a terrifying revelation, a confirmation of the mystery that surrounded him, and it had irrevocably changed everything.