REINAI was not trying to listen.That was the lie I told myself as I lay still on the bed, the covers pulled to my chest, my body aching in places I did not want to think about yet. The room was quiet, too quiet, the kind of quiet that came after chaos, when the world held its breath and waited to see what would break next.Then I heard her voice.Her sharp voice that was familiar in all the worst ways possible. “After everything, you dare bring her back here?”My heart skipped painfully.I knew that voice. I had heard it in my nightmares, woven into memories I had tried and failed to bury. Seraphina.I pushed myself up slowly, wincing as weakness rushed through me. The voices were coming from the corridor just outside my door. Logan’s voice followed, lower, controlled, too controlled.I moved without thinking, slipping my feet onto the cold floor, steadying myself against the bedpost. I did not open the door. I did not need to. The words carried clearly.“You married me,” Seraphina
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