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Chapter 18

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The air in the room turned heavy, like someone had sucked all the oxygen out and left only this brittle, choking silence. Ethan’s face was still locked in that stunned expression, and for one sharp, delicious second, I felt it—a flicker of real power. I could have gloated if the moment wasn’t so goddamn dire. Cornering him like this, holding something he didn’t know I had… it tasted better than I wanted to admit.

But the feeling slipped away fast.

The raw openness in his eyes shut down like a gate slamming, replaced by something colder, tighter, barely leashed. He didn’t snarl. He didn’t lunge. He just drew in a slow, careful breath and lifted both hands, palms out, in a way that looked completely wrong on him.

“Sophia,” he said, voice low and steady, nothing like the rage from minutes ago. “You need to breathe.”

“Breathe?” I laughed, and it came out jagged and ugly.

Everything I’d been holding back just poured out. “You and Marcus—you staged it, didn’t you? The key, the wolf in the
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