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60. Danger

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The first thing Ragnar noticed was her stillness.

Freya lay cradled in his arms, unmoving, her breath too shallow, her skin almost colorless beneath the dim, fractured light spilling from the high window. The talisman clasped around her arm, his safeguard, his precaution, pulsed with a dull, sinister rhythm, the silver runes crawling under her skin like molten threads seeking something to consume.

It wasn’t merely restraining her. It was fighting her.

His hand lifted almost on instinct, knuckles brushing against her cheek.

Cold. Far too cold.

Her lashes fluttered, slow and heavy, before parting, and the moment their eyes met, the world shifted.

These were not Freya’s eyes.

Not the storm-green depths that had learned to meet his with defiance or quiet fire. No, these were piercing, crystalline, glacial blue, so vivid they seemed to drink the air from his lungs. The eyes he had just seen before she fell asleep. He thought he was hallucinating, but that wasn't the case. The same eyes he
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    The air in the chamber cracked under the weight of that single word.“You.”It fell from Ragnar’s lips like a blade, silent in its arc yet sharp enough to slice through the fragile stillness binding the room. The sound wasn’t loud, but it carried a lethal density, as if every syllable had been forged from molten fury and left to cool in his chest. Even the walls seemed to draw back, shadows curling away from him.Atlas froze where he knelt beside Freya’s bed, her hand still clasped between his own as he had held it again. His grip tightened until the skin across his knuckles blanched, as though the contact was the only anchor keeping him upright. He didn’t look toward Ragnar, not immediately. His gaze clung to Freya, his eyes frantic in their search for her, as if seeing her alive wasn’t enough; as if he needed proof she was truly safe.Ragnar stepped forward, slow and deliberate, the door yawning wider behind him with a low groan of hinges that scraped across the stone like a warning

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