Larry The moment Zara left my study and the door clicked shut behind her, the room felt wrong.Too warm.Too quiet.Too suffocating.Her perfume still clung to the air, honey and lavender, thick enough to choke on. It should have satisfied me. It usually did. But tonight…I raked a hand through my hair, exhaling slowly as the faint echo of the hallway crept into my memory.The sound of a floorboard creaking.The stillness.Lyra standing there.She heard. She saw.And instead of a scene, a scream, a slap…She had looked at me with those eyes, calm, cold, shattered, I thought she would cry, begged me, bowed in acknowledgment as her Alpha but instead she spoke as someone who isn't breaking soon.As if she had expected it.As if I had proven her right.As if none of this touched her.ThatThat pissed me off more than anything.I walked to the door, opened it, and looked down the empty corridor. She was gone. Like smoke. Like something that never existed.My chest tightened unexpectedly.
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