"The world is crazy. Have ears but don't listen. Have eyes but don't see. You think it is okay?"
The concert opened with Lumina's rebellious anthem, Crazy, an explosion of sound that sent the stadium into frenzy. Fans screamed themselves hoarse, the ground shaking with their voices.
Elias lowered his gaze, disappointment flickering in his eyes. It seemed tonight, too, he had failed to find what he was searching for.
When he lifted his lashes again, his eyes gleamed with dazzling light, burying every hidden sorrow in their depths.
From seat forty-five in the third row, Serein could not look away from him for even a heartbeat. Her brows pinched with worry.
Elias's levo had gone calm again, smoothed to quiet ripples. No trace of instability remained, as though what she had seen earlier was only a hallucination born of her nerves.