Seren's POVThe formal registration was set for the last week of the thirty days, even though Davan's claim had already been thrown out. Ashgrove insisted on it anyway. Said a verbal ruling in a sealed hallway wasn't the same as a bond confirmed on record, and until my name sat in the registry beside Caelum's and Rysen's, nothing about my life here was actually safe on paper.I hated how much that word, safe, had started to feel like a moving target.The week leading up to it passed strange and slow. Caelum threw himself into preparing for the hearing the way he threw himself into everything, controlled and exhausting and quiet about it, like if he just worked hard enough none of us would have time to be scared. Rysen handled it differently. He kept finding reasons to touch me, a hand on my back passing through a doorway, fingers laced through mine at dinner, like he needed the constant proof that I was still there, still real, still his to reach for.I noticed things about my own bod
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