Jasmine’s POVI returned to the old apartment.It was the first night I had spent away from Tristan’s penthouse since Marc and I had moved there, and the decision had not been about safety in the first place, Jeff still knew where I was. The detail had been adjusted, not abandoned. What I needed was the familiar space itself, the same rooms where I had made decisions about Marc before Tristan, before the pack, before Garth Fontaine and the Obsidian Circle and a prophecy fragment in an archival sleeve had become part of the air we breathed. I needed the quiet of a place that had held us when the threats were still unnamed and the only strategy was endurance.Most of all, I needed Marc’s room.I sat on the floor with my back against the wall, knees drawn toward my chest, and watched my son sleep under the soft glow of the nightlight he had always insisted to keep on. The light was a low amber that did not reach the corners of the room, it only caught the edge of the blanket and the dark
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