RYLAN POVThe house was unusually quiet, all the maids had left. Halvorsen cleared all of them, My Uncle only needed new people in the mansion.I carried Aurora in carefully, every step measured, every movement slow. Her arms were looped around my neck, her face pressed lightly against my shoulder. She didn’t complain, not even once, but I felt the way her body tensed whenever I shifted my grip.She was still in pain and she refused to voice it out.I laid her gently on the couch in the parlor, adjusting the cushions so her injured leg rested comfortably. The doctor had warned us that it was the same spot of her last injury. Orla’s shove back then had reopened that old wound,I knelt in front of her, my hands hovering uselessly for a second before I finally rested one on her knee, careful not to touch where it hurt.She studied my face, eyes soft but searching.“What did Raine say?” she asked quietly. “I know she asked you to let Dylan go?”I nodded. “Yes.”Her brows pulled together
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