"Ren," Shen Yanting said, his voice perfectly level, "go to our room.""But—""Now."Ren went. He walked down the hallway with his heart in his throat and his mind churning, and he closed the bedroom door behind him and pressed his back against it and breathed.Wen Qiao. The name sat in his chest like a splinter—small, sharp, impossible to ignore. Someone had been here before him. Someone had slept in this bed, worn these clothes, knelt at Shen Yanting's feet. Someone had been claimed and kept and chosen, and then—He left.Why? What had Shen Yanting done, or failed to do? What crack in the arrangement had widened until walking away was the only option? And more importantly—more terrifyingly—could it happen again? Could Ren wake up one day and find that the ground beneath him had turned to air, that belonging was just another word for falling?He didn't hear the front door close, but he heard Shen Yanting's footsteps in the hallway—sharp, clipped, the rhythm of a man containing someth
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