Rose’s POV The door shut behind us with a muted, final click.For one suspended second, I just stood there.I could still feel the shape of the room at my back like something branded into my skin—the long polished table, Renwick’s careful voice, Whitmore’s measured stare, the scratching rhythm of the clerk’s keys, Adrian’s unreadable face, Jason’s stillness beside me. My pulse was beating too high in my throat, too hard in my wrists, too loud in the bond for me to hear the corridor properly at first.Then the hallway rushed back.The cooler air.The old stone smell of the administrative wing.A pair of distant footsteps fading down the far staircase.My own breathing, uneven and too shallow.Jason’s hand was still at the small of my back.Warm.Steady.Present in that quiet, infuriatingly powerful way only he could manage—never forcing, never crowding, just there with enough certainty to keep me from drifting apart entirely.The bond between us had changed again.Not the bright heat
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