The air in the classroom froze solid.I could almost see the energy now—like a golden, warm string suddenly pulled taut between Alex and the small figure at the doorway. Every whisper, every rustle of turning pages, even the distant traffic outside the windows, was sucked into a vacuum in that instant.Only that string vibrated, humming in a frequency only I could hear.When Alex stood up, the scrape of chair legs against the floor sounded unbearably loud. Melissa was rooted to the doorway, eyes wide like a nocturnal animal caught in sudden bright light. The book clenched in her hands slipped free and hit the floor with a sharp thud.I held my breath.This was it—no dramatic declaration, no cinematic dash into an embrace. Just a Beta heir walking through crooked rows of desks t
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