Seryna didn’t answer immediately.Her eyes remained fixed on the door Mira had just disappeared through… as if she could still see her standing there, breaking apart all over again.A thought slipped through her mind.I can’t tell him.Her fingers brushed lightly against her arm, almost absent… but the motion lingered a second too long. I can't tell him that I was the one who helped Anana survive…A brief pause followed, the silence stretching just enough for Riven’s patience to become noticeable. He watched her… waiting, measuring.Seryna exhaled softly.And when she turned back to him… her expression had already shifted, smoothed and composed. Every trace of that fleeting hesitation buried beneath something far more controlled.Then finally… she spoke.“When I gained my freedom,” she began, her voice flowing easily now, far too easily, as though the words had been prepared long before this moment, “Lucien came for me.”Her gaze shifted slightly, unfocused… but not with memory alone
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