The safehouse felt smaller than usual that night.Not because of its size—Holden had chosen one of the Lu family’s most discreet mountain hideouts, hidden behind walls of dark pine trees and wrapped in silence—but because of the unbearable pressure between him and Elena. Every emotion they had been avoiding since the storm, every glance, every touch, every unanswered question… all of it sat in the air like a storm waiting to break.Holden locked the door behind them.The click echoed.Elena spun toward him, breath uneven. “You didn’t need to take me away like this.”“Yes,” Holden said, voice low, strained. “I did.”She stepped back—just one step, but it was enough to twist something sharp inside him.Holden dragged a hand through his hair. He looked exhausted, colder than she’d ever seen, but beneath that ice lived something far more dangerous: fear.Real fear.Not of Silas.Of losing her.“What were you thinking?” Holden asked. “Running off alone? Silas was there, Elena. He was waiti
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