That night shifted things, Lorenzo’s spirit showing up in the office left cracks everywhere. His word, "poison," hung like a locked door between us. Leon, once clinging, marking space near me at every turn, now moves through rooms as if I were air.Morning light came through the window first thing, pulling me awake inside the old west part of the house, silent and untouched until now. On Leon’s exact command, everything we owned appeared there suddenly, carried by Helen sometime after midnight. Big walls surrounded me, high ceilings above, fresh air waiting just past the open doors to the trees beyond. Still, I counted steps in my head without meaning to, one long stretch across stone halls separating his space from mine, hidden deep within opposite ends of the building."This is for your safety, Luna," Helen whispered as she brought me breakfast. Her usually calm face now radiated with genuine compassion. "Master Alpha has ordered that there be no physical contact within three meters
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