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Someone Is Watching
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2026-06-12 14:37:09
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Midnight Debt: Never His, Always His Someone Is Watching
REINAI went to the garden before six.Not because I had a plan. Just because the house was quiet and my head was loud and the garden has always been the one place where those two things can exist together without destroying each other.I pulled weeds I didn't need to pull. Turned soil that didn't need turning. Gave my hands something to do so my brain would stop replaying the hallway on a loop like it had been doing.It wasn't working.A mistake.Fine. It was a mistake. I had heard him clearly.But I tried to figure out what I was actually feeling underneath all the dignity.Hurt. I was really hurt.The kind that happens when someone confirms something you were already half-afraid was true.I sat back and looked at what I'd done to the far end of the garden.Then I laughed a little. Quietly. To myself.Get it together, Reina.Lena found me an hour later with two mugs of tea and the expression she wore when she already knew something was wrong and was giving me the choice of whether t
Midnight Debt: Never His, Always His The Morning After I Kissed Her
ZADENI didn't sleep.Not even for an hour. I lay on my back in the dark staring at the ceiling like it had something to tell me and it had absolutely nothing to tell me and by four in the morning I gave up entirely and went to my office.But she was still there, in my head.The way she kissed me back.I pressed my fingers to my desk and looked at the wall.That part I could not stop coming back to no matter how many times I told myself to stop coming back to it. She kissed me back. Not hesitantly. Not because she was surprised and didn't know how to respond. She kissed me back like she had been waiting and had stopped pretending she hadn't and the two or three seconds before I pulled away were…I stood up.Went to the window.The courtyard was dark and empty and the guards were doing their rotation and everything was exactly as it should be and I felt like something had been rearranged inside my chest without my permission and I couldn't find where everything had gone.I called it a
Midnight Debt: Never His, Always His The Wrong Chair
REINAIt started with the meeting.Not a big meeting. A small one, a routine pack gathering in the main hall where Zaden reviewed territory updates and pack business and everyone sat in their assigned places like the hierarchy was a physical thing you could trip over if you weren't careful.I didn't know there were assigned places.Nobody told me there were assigned places.So I sat down in the nearest empty chair at the side of the room, which happened to be close to where Damian was standing, which apparently was not where I was supposed to be.I figured this out approximately thirty seconds after I sat down, when the entire room went quiet in that specific way that meant something was wrong and everyone knew what it was except me.I looked up.Zaden was staring at me from across the room, cold and completely unreadableI had no idea what I had done but I had clearly done something.I held his gaze until he looked away first.Then the meeting continued.I found out afterward from Le
Midnight Debt: Never His, Always His I Am In Trouble
ZADENI started running at midnight.Not because I planned to. Not because it was scheduled or strategic or part of any particular routine. I just couldn’t sleepThis is the thing about running hard through familiar ground in the dark, it is supposed to clear everything. That's what it has always done for me. Years of using this land as a reset, a pressure valve, a place where everything that cannot be controlled can at least be outrun for an hour.Tonight it wasn't working.I ran the eastern boundary first. Harder than necessary, pushing until my lungs properly burned and the only thing that should have existed was the ground under my feet and the cold air and the dark. The trees blurred at the edges of my vision. My body found the familiar rhythm, the one that usually quieted everything else within the first ten minutes.Ten minutes passed and she was still there.Her voice You don't want me Like a fact she had already made her peaceI pushed harder.Crossed the northern ridge. The
Midnight Debt: Never His, Always His The Bracelet And The Wrist
ZADENI sat in my room for the first time in months.Not my office. Not the meeting room. Not the territory. My room, the one I slept in when I slept, which lately wasn't often, the one that was dark and quiet and had no desk covered in reports and no window facing the garden and absolutely no reason for my brain to keep dragging me back to a hallway twenty minutes ago where I had almost…I pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes.The bracelet was on the bed beside me.I hadn't gone to the drawer deliberately. I didn't even remember picking it up. I just found myself sitting on the edge of the bed with it in my palm the way I always did when everything else stopped making sense, which was happening with an embarrassing frequency lately.I looked at it.Who are you, I thought.Then I kept replaying it.The hallway. Her face. The way she stood her ground even when I stepped forward, even when most people with any sense of self-preservation would have moved back.You don't want me.
Midnight Debt: Never His, Always His He Lost His Control
REINAI didn't go looking for trouble.I want that on record. I was minding my business, doing exactly what I always do, keeping my head down, staying in my lane, existing in this house as quietly and as possible. I was not looking for anything. I was not trying to provoke anyone. I was simply standing in the east courtyard with a cup of tea, enjoying approximately four minutes of afternoon sunlight, when Callum found me."You look like someone who needs a worse joke than whatever's going on in their head," he said, dropping onto the bench beside me without invitation.I looked at him. "That's a terrible opener.""I know. I have worse ones. Want to hear them?"I almost didn't smile. I nearly held it together.But Callum had that particular quality that made it genuinely difficult to maintain a straight face around him. He'd been assigned to the east wing patrol three weeks ago and somewhere between his terrible jokes and his complete refusal to treat me like a piece of furniture, we'd
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