The door barely shut before Caspian turned to her. “Okay… what the hell was that?”Solana didn’t answer immediately.She slipped off her heels near the entrance, her movements slow, deliberate… almost as if she stopped moving for even a second, everything would collapse.“Sol,” Caspian said again, his voice softer now, but the tension in it didn’t fully ease up. “Stop ignoring me.”She walked past him into the living room, dropping her bag on the couch before finally exhaling. “I just needed a minute.”“You’ve had twenty,” Caspian shot back, following her. “You wouldn’t talk in the car. Out there, you looked like you were about to pass out. And then he shows up—”He stopped himself, jaw tightening. “That was him, wasn’t it? I didn't see wrong.”She stayed silent for a while, her head tilted back against the chair's headrest, her eyes closed. Then she let out a sigh and nodded. “Yes.” Her voice was so low he almost didn't hear her, but the heaviness in it made his heart twitch. Cas
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