Jasmine’s POV I took Marc back to the old house to spend the afternoon with Zea. Since the move into Tristan’s penthouse, ordinary time with her had become rare. The rooms still smelled like the life we had built before everything tightened—laundry soap, the faint crayon scent from Marc’s drawings, the particular quiet of a place that had held us through worse years. Marc ran straight to Zea and wrapped his arms around her waist. She laughed and lifted him off the ground the way she always did, and for a while I let myself sit at the kitchen table and simply exist in the familiarity. We talked about small things, like the new security detail, how Marc was sleeping, whether the cracked amulet had worsened. Nothing that required a strategy board, just the kind of conversation that reminded me I still had a friend who knew the shape of my life without needing every classified detail. The normality did not last. My phone rang while I was standing near the kitchen window, watching th
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