Arianna I forced myself to breathe.The noise in my head wouldn’t stop. The warehouse, the gunshots, the man who pulled me out, the strange house—it all tried to drag me back, piece by piece. But I pushed it away.None of that mattered right now.Because Liam’s words were still hanging in the air.Don’t come near my sister.Sister.I turned slowly, my gaze moving from him to Aiden and back again. The tension between them hadn’t eased—not even a little. If anything, it felt sharper now, like one wrong move would shatter everything.“What is going on?” My voice came out weaker than I intended, but I didn’t care. “Someone needs to explain this to me.”Neither of them answered immediately.Aiden’s jaw was tight, his eyes on Liam, unreadable but dangerous.Liam, on the other hand, looked at me.Really looked at me.Not like before.Not like someone watching over me.But like someone who had been holding onto something for far too long.“Arianna,” he said quietly, “sit down.”“I don’t want
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