The next day,The humidity in the North Suite didn’t just hang; it pressed. It was a physical weight, thick with the scent of ozone, damp stone, and the heavy, musky musk of a wolf on the jagged edge of a forced shift.Silas stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, his reflection a ghostly, predatory silhouette against the glass. The Atlantic roared below, but he didn’t hear the waves. He heard the ragged, skidding rhythm of the girl’s heart behind him.Ayla sat on the edge of the bed, the silver flute clutched so tightly in her lap that her knuckles were the color of bleached bone. She hadn't played a note since the garden, but she didn’t have to. The frequency was still there, humming under her skin - a low-vibrating tether that pulled at Silas’s gut every time she drew a breath. It was a psychic hook, sinking deeper into his marrow with every passing second."My father doesn't make suggestions, Ayla," Silas said, his voice a lethal, vibrating low that rattled the glass in its frame.
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