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Iris.

Two days later.

I’m setting out medications for Mrs. Ford. Today, she says she feels cold. The weather’s awful, relentless rain all morning, clouds hanging heavy in a dull gray sky. It's 10 a.m., yet it feels like dusk. The clouds awfully grey.

I haven’t seen the Alpha since that night. Since the kiss. The one that shot fire through me, left my body pulsing with sensations I didn’t recognize, and he… he vanished like smoke. Not a word. Not a glimpse. It puzzles me. It's distracting. But I push the thought away. I'm at work. No room to dwell on lips and what they might have meant. What they could have done.

“Mrs. Ford…” I nudge her gently. She stirs, offers a soft smile.

“Your medication,” I say, helping her sit upright. She smells nice. Always does.

She swallows the pills with practiced ease. But her eyes… they stay locked on me. She’s been looking at me like that for two days now. Searching. Knowing. It's disturbing.

“I’m sorry your first day at Silvaton Ridge was… devastatin
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