Scarlett's POV I spent the rest of the morning after the garden bench pretending I had not heard it. The click plus the single, quiet, deliberate sound from somewhere beyond the garden wall. I had walked back into the pack house at an unhurried pace with my face arranged and my hands loose at my sides, and then I had stood in the east wing corridor and listened. And it came again from the left. I turned toward it and found nothing. The corridor was empty, and I stood still, waiting sound again, and after twenty seconds, it came from the right this time, the same sound, the same quality of something small, mechanical, and intentional. I turned that way. Yet my attempt to catch the exact point it came from proved abortive, as there was nothing, no steps or figure retreating, and not even a shadow adjusting itself around a corner to avoid suspicion, no traces at all. I moved through the corridor in its full length gently, checking every doorway individually, including all the empt
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