ANYAAlaric stood there.He was holding the tray himself, one hand steady beneath the polished wood, the other resting easily at his side. For someone so powerful, he looked surprisingly calm.For a second, I wondered why he was knocking in his own house.It felt strange, almost wrong, that someone like him, a man whose presence seemed to command the air, would knock before entering.Evelina’s demeanor changed the moment she saw her brother. The warmth in her violet eyes softened into something else, guarded, unreadable.“Brother,” she greeted.“Evelina,” he replied evenly, his gaze flicking from her to me, then back again.“I should leave you two,” she said, rising to her feet. She turned to me and smiled faintly. “We’ll talk later, Anya.”Before I could say anything, she was gone, the door closing quietly behind her.And just like that, the room felt smaller.I hadn’t really looked at him before, not properly. Every time I did, I was too caught up in fear, in the thought that he mig
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