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“Incredible, right?” Becca shouted, and my heart squeezed painfully in my chest.
I couldn’t reconcile them together. Corvus and The Bone Man.
I hated him for not telling me. For using my voice. For all the awful things he’d done and said. For every time he’d tried to control me.
But how could I hate him completely when now, through his music, I understood him?
His song, Protector, showed me why he had his need for control. How he couldn’t survive without it.
And the others showed me…more than I wanted to know about him.
I sat there for so long, contemplative and numb that I didn’t notice when Becca waded back into the crowd, leaving me alone, sitting there with Grey at his request so that at least she could enjoy the rest of the show.
I’d told her to go, or at least, I thought I did.
Somehow we’d been there for an hour or more because suddenly The Bone Man was announcing his final song of the night.
His voice, his non-singing voice, expanded into the cavernous underground space, and I’d have known it anywhere, even if he was adding an extra level of gruffness to it to try to mask it.
“I have one last song for you,” he said and accepted a mic stand from a woman in black leather leggings when she walked it onto the stage and retreated with a quick red-lipped kiss blown into the crowd.
Corvus set his mic onto the stand and looked up into the black light. Something in his sharply defined skeleton face softening.
“You won’t know it. It’s something new I’ve been working on. It’s…it’s a little different from my usual, but I think you’ll like it.”
A few rogue shouts offuck yeahandwhoop!Went up.
He exhaled, the sound of it like a whispered prayer electrifying the air. He settled in as a beat a bit slower than his usual tempo began to filter through the speakers. All haunting piano keys stuck intermittently with the ominous sounds of breathing and an echoed beat. It made my skin bristle anew.
“This one’s calledSparrow.”
I snapped my attention to Grey, spine going rigid.
He offered me a small impish grin, nodding slightly.Just listen,he mouthed, as if I could do anything else.
“She makes me mad
She makes me mean
She haunts my dreams
I call her Sparrow.”
Something cracked in my chest, and I got up abruptly, letting my feet drag me forward.
“AJ!” Grey called, but I was already gone, vaulting over the railing and into the crowd, dipping and weaving and pushing toward the front.
That motherfucker.
How dare he.
After everything…
The crowd pushed back, not allowing me past as I continued to find a way forward, realizing belatedly that I should have just gone around. There would have only been a couple of security guards to deal with if I had, it would’ve been easier than slogging through this.
“Wicked as they come,
I’m coming undone.
