(Elena’s POV)For a moment, my brain refused to process what I was seeing.Brother.The word rippled through the ruined penthouse like a cold blade. Adrian went still too still like someone had hit a pressure point that froze him from the inside out.The woman stepped further into the half-collapsed room, her boots crunching over broken glass. Smoke curled around her, giving her an almost spectral presence, like she didn’t belong in the world of ordinary humans.Her gaze locked onto Adrian as if I wasn’t even there.“You’re bleeding,” she noted flatly, eyes flicking to the cut on his forehead. “Sloppy.”Adrian didn’t move. Didn’t blink.His voice, when it finally came, sounded like steel dragged across stone.“Lydia.”Lydia.His sister.The sister he never spoke of.The one everyone believed was dead.My breath stuttered.She tilted her head, lips curving not into a smile, but into something too sharp to be warmth.“Hello, brother,” she repeated softly.Adrian straightened slowly, pla
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