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Tonight

Author: Ava John
last update publish date: 2026-04-24 15:30:04

Sofia

Draco moved fast when he had a target.

I had seen him still and I had seen him controlled and I had seen the careful, deliberate version of him that managed everything from behind a composed surface but this was something else. He was at the door of the study before Xavier had finished standing, already reaching for his phone, already thinking three steps ahead with the particular focused velocity of someone for whom crisis was not a disruption but a setting.

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