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AnnaliseHunter came back from Camille’s room with a dark cloud hovering over his face and his jaw was set so tight I didn’t push for the full story that night. He said she’d deflected, thrown out vague talk of old promises meant to rattle him, nothing solid. I believed the second part more than the first. I had seen his face. Something had rattled him plenty.“Corwin,” was all he said, staring at nothing. “I need to speak with Corwin.”“Tonight?” I asked.“Tomorrow.” He shook himself, focus snapping back to me like a physical thing. “Tonight I need to know you’re safe.”I was safe. I told him so. He didn’t look like he believed that either, but exhaustion won out over the urge to argue. We both fell into uneasy sleep with too many unanswered questions crowded into the space between us.Morning came the way it always did, indifferent to whatever had happened the previous night. Melissa was under Rosalind’s care, stitched and resting, under strict orders not to move for two days. Which

AnnaliseSomeone was in my room again.I held my breath in the doorway, with my heart pounding before I caught the scent properly and realized it wasn’t a threat at all.“Ava?”She spun around so fast she nearly knocked over the water basin, hand pressed flat against her chest like I had scared a decade off her life. “You weren’t supposed to be back yet.”“It’s my room.” I stepped inside slowly and closed the door behind me. “What are you doing here?”“I brought you this.” She held out a small bundle of clean linens, hands shaking slightly. “Melissa asked me to. Said your bedding hadn’t been changed since well...Since everything got destroyed.”I studied her carefully. Ava didn’t run errands for anyone unless she absolutely had to, and she definitely didn’t linger in rooms afterward looking like she might be sick.“That’s not why you’re still standing here,” I said.Her eyes darted to the door, then back to me, her face cracked the same way it had the day she’d told me to be careful a