Elias’s POVThe door clicked shut behind Ronan, and the silence that followed felt heavier than anything that had happened today.I stared at the door for a long second, then another.My heartbeat was too loud, too fast, like it couldn’t decide whether to panic or calm down without Ronan’s presence anchoring it.I swallowed hard, pulling the blanket tighter around my shoulders.He left to stop Hale. He said he would come back.But the room felt different without him.Too empty, too open and fragile.I took a slow breath, trying to control it the way Ronan always told me.In… out… slowly… It helped, but only a little.As the minutes dragged, every sound outside the door felt suspicious;A distant footstep, A muffled voice. The creak of the floorboards in the hallway.All of them made my pulse jump.I pulled my knees up to my chest, curling into the blanket more tightly. The lingering warmth where Ronan’s hand had been on mine was fading, and the absence ached in a way I didn’t want to t
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