POV: Nyx (First Person)I heard about Sera Voss before I saw her.Two days of carefully placed mentions. A maid here, a junior pack member there, comments dropped with the specific casualness of things that were meant to land. I was not prepared for the reality of her.She arrived mid morning, sweeping into the entrance hall like she owned the stone beneath her feet, and she was stunning in the way that certain women were stunning, not just beautiful, but aware of it, wearing it like armor that had never once failed her. She had dark hair and the perfect posture. The kind of confidence that did not announce itself because it had never needed to.She saw me the moment I came around the corner.And she smiled.Warm, bright. The smile of a woman greeting someone she was delighted to finally meet, and if I had not spent nineteen years learning to read the thing underneath the smile, I might have felt welcomed by it.I did not feel welcomed."You must be Nyx." She crossed toward me with
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