The mansion had grown suffocating. Its marble halls, gilded chandeliers, and velvet curtains might have been symbols of wealth and power to anyone else, but to Serena they were bars on a cage. She had lived in fear before, in her father’s house, under Matthias’s shadow, but this felt worse because here, freedom seemed close enough to touch, yet remained just out of reach.For nights after Emilia’s warning, sleep had refused to come easily. When it did, it came heavy, haunted by fire and ash, by her father’s snarling voice, by Matthias’s hand gripping her arm. But more than that, she heard Emilia’s icy words repeating like a curse:If anything happens to Damien or the Alaric empire, you’ll be the first to pay.It wasn’t just Damien watching her. It was his family. His empire. A web of eyes spun around her, and she was the insect caught in the middle.Serena had sworn once, standing in the burning ruins of her childhood home, that she would never again let anyone lock her down, contr
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