GUARDEDELENA'S POVThe faint glow of dawn seeped through my bedroom window, casting a dim light over the silent Manor. Outside, the remnants of the battle lay quiet, but I could still sense the tension simmering beneath the surface, like embers of a fire refusing to die.I hadn’t been allowed outside, not even to glimpse what was happening, and it tore at me, that helplessness. I had only felt the echoes of the war from within these walls—the roars, the tremors of battle, the scent of blood drifting in through the windows left cracked open. It was maddening to know that out there, lives had been risked, lost, and saved, while I’d been forced to sit here and do nothing. Cole and Derek had been stationed outside my door, their presence constant, their duty clear. Liam had ordered them to keep me here, out of danger, even as he went into battle himself. I shouldn’t have been surprised. He had made that decision for me, as if my thoughts o
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