[Elena]I bit down on my lower lip and lifted my gaze.And the moment I did, my heart skipped, my brow creasing together.I was standing in front of a mansion.The realization didn’t hit all at once. It crept in slowly, the way fear does—quiet, deliberate. My eyes lifted, taking it in piece by piece, as if my mind needed time to accept what I was seeing.The building rose behind a wall of thick greenery. Bushes crowded its base, wild and untrimmed, their leaves brushing against stone. Tall plants pressed in close, half-concealing the structure, as though the place had grown out of them instead of being built among them.It didn’t look abandoned.But it didn’t look found, either.The walls were dark, muted, blending too well with the shadows around them. Vines crawled lazily up the surface, clinging to windows, to corners, to anything they could grab. The mansion felt… tucked away. Hidden in plain sight.My chest tightened.I shifted, instinct pulling me to turn around—then I stopped m
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