{Liam’s POV}The Palace no longer slept.It breathed, unevenly and anxiously, like a wounded animal that didn’t yet know whether it would survive the night.I stood on the eastern battlement field of the Palace long after the moon had dipped behind cloud and ash, my hands resting on cold stone as if it were the only solid thing left in the world. Below me, torchlight crawled along the outer walls, guards pacing in tight, relentless loops. Every clang of armor echoed sharper than it should have. Every raised voice cut too quickly into silence.Fear had a sound… and it lived here now.“Ava.”The name left my mouth before I realized I’d spoken aloud. The wind caught it, tore it apart, and scattered it into the dark beyond the walls— into forests, ravines, and places I couldn’t reach.I hadn’t slept.I hadn’t eaten.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her back as she fled; bloodied, furious, terrified, and the way my hand had reached for her not as a man, not as someone who cared, but as a
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