(Elena’s POV)We didn’t utter a word to each other as we walked to the elevator. The walk to the elevator felt longer than it should have, stretching endlessly beneath polished lights and glass walls that reflected my own face back at me—pale, shaken, furious beneath the calm I was forcing to hold. Alaric walked beside me, close enough that our shoulders brushed once, then again, like he was making sure I didn’t disappear if he loosened his grip.“Don’t look back,” Alaric said quietly.“I won’t ” I replied, though part of me wanted to—wanted to memorize the humiliation on their faces, the shock, the loss of control. I wanted to bottle it and keep it.The elevator doors came into view.He reached out and pressed the call button before I could stop myself from shaking. The small ding felt too loud.Only then did he turn to me.“Are you alright?” He asked moving closer to me.I laughed softly, the sound hollow. “Define alright.”His gaze softened in a way that un
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