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Chapter Seventy

作者: Mac
last update 公開日: 2026-07-26 04:46:18

Mira's POV

I noticed the watching before I understood what it meant.

It started small, easy to dismiss. A pause in conversation whenever I passed a group of women near the well. A lingering glance from someone at the market, quickly redirected the moment I looked back. Nothing hostile in any of it, nothing that made my skin prickle the way genuine suspicion usually did. Just attention, quiet and persistent, following me through the ordinary business of an ordinary week.

I mentioned it to Petra
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