Selene’s POVThe desert wind whipped across my face as Cassius pushed the bike deeper into nowhere. He didn’t slow, didn’t speak, and didn’t even look back.Something heavy sat between us, not just fear but truth he hadn’t said yet, one I could feel pressing on the air like it was quietly waiting to explode.I could feel it pressing down on my chest, cold and relentless, twisting my stomach into knots. God, it was suffocating.We stopped at an abandoned service station miles off the main road. The place looked like a skeleton of a building with rusted beams, cracked walls, and broken windows, like it had been forgotten long before we arrived.Cassius parked behind it and scanned the area as if danger lived in the shadows. Every movement he made was precise, almost predatory, as though he expected trouble to come crashing through the walls at any second.“Get inside,” he said.The door creaked loudly as we stepped into the dim, dusty room. Old tires were stacked in one corner. A broken
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