Silas's Pov A week had passed. And in that short moment of time, the palace had settled into a strange kind of peace. Ever since I walked out of the throne room and left the Lycan King kneeling, something had shifted, I could feel it with every breath in me. I could feel it in the way the air moved around me, in the quieter stares of the staff, in the absence of the constant pressure that used to follow me from corridor to corridor. Since then, he had not tried to force another confrontation, nor had he touched me again. And somehow, that restraint made his presence heavier rather than before. Everytime we were in the room together, I could literally feel his every breath in the room, his smallest movements. Now as I sat alone in the room we still shared, a fantasy novel open against my knees. The story was good enough to hold my eyes, but not quite good enough to hold my thoughts. Every few pages, my attention drifted. My gaze kept lifting to the clock on the wall. A few minu
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