Derek’s POV I felt it, deep inside. It felt calm yet it was wrong. It wasn't wrong in the way chaos alerts you, like shouting, running, and crashing.No.It was just too quiet, even the wind ceased to make it's usual sound. Rather, it was swallowed by a slow, creeping and suffocating quiet.A quiet that pressed against the walls, slithered across the floors, seeped into the marrow of the palace like a warning.A quiet that felt alive. The kind of silence that happens right before a monster opens its eyes.I walked with deliberate steps through the corridor, my boots cracking against the marble in a rhythm too calm for the storm I felt brewing beneath everything. Every guard I passed bowed too quickly, too stiffly. Their eyes darted, nervous, sensing something they couldn’t name.But I could.Elise.She was the shift in the air. The change in the temperature. The tremor humming through the stone. And while Damon and Drake were unraveling her, I was observing.Damon was all wildfire, a
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