His Rejected Mate's Secret
The firepit at the center burned with steady light, but even that glow felt fragile now, like it could be swallowed at any moment by something unseen.
And the twins…
The twins were changing.
I noticed it first in the silence.
They weren’t playing like they used to.
They weren’t laughing as freely.
Instead, they sat closer to each other now, often mirroring each other’s movements without meaning to. When one shifted, the other followed half a second later. When one looked up, the other did too, always slightly delayed, like an echo learning how to move.
It should have been innocent.
But nothing about it felt innocent anymore.