Kade’s POV:“Paper?” I repeated, the word leaving my mouth slower than I intended, weighed down by confusion.“She was acting weird yesterday at the party, and it started when she took a drink from the waiter and opened a paper,” Thorne replied, his tone measured, almost too calm for what he was implying. Our gazes shifted to him at once.“I witnessed their interaction,” he added, as if that alone should make everything clearer.“What’s in the paper?” Keziah asked, his attention snapping back to Alora like a blade finding its mark.I followed his gaze. For a split second, I caught it—panic. Raw, unguarded, flashing through her eyes before it was swallowed whole and replaced with something more composed. Too composed.“You guys didn’t see the paper?” she asked.“No,” I answered immediately.Her eyes moved to Thorne and Keziah, searching, calculating.“No,” Thorne confirmed.Then her gaze lingered on Keziah a second longer than necessary, almost as if she expected something else from hi
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