Shay tilted her head slightly, a faint, almost mocking smile appearing. "Oh?"
Her voice softened. "What about Spencer?"
The moment his name left her lips...everything changed. Aurora's calm was shattered.
Her fingers stilled, her expression darkening as something dangerous flickered in her eyes.
"If you're here to threaten me using Spencer…"
Her voice dropped, cold and sharp enough to cut. "Then you should know better."
Aurora's gaze turned icy.
"If Spencer doesn't live in this world… or if even a single hair on him is harmed …"
She paused. Her lips curved. A smile, soft, almost beautiful… yet utterly terrifying.
She tilted her head slightly, looking straight into Shay's eyes, her voice lowering into something calm and absolute.
"…then this entire world can go to hell."
A faint scent of burnt caramel from a nearby dessert drifted through the air, strangely out of place against the chill her words carried.
"I will burn everything down."
