Chapter 51 Not, Kai Dimitri, Please

Soren

"You have to sleep with him." Mom says it casually, as if she’s just asking me to pass the salt.

We’re on Kai’s balcony, our wine capturing the moonlight, the city humming beneath. For a second, the world tilts.

“What?” when I say.

“Kai,” she says, still not looking at me. “Three weeks ...