HyacinthI was playing a dangerous game.Silas and I had been careful—too careful. But that didn’t change the fact that, behind closed doors, away from prying eyes, we were slipping. Every stolen glance, every lingering touch, every whispered word in the dead of night pulled us further into something we couldn’t name.Something we couldn’t stop.The fortress that was Alpha Gerald’s estate had too many eyes, too many ears. Yet somehow, in the chaos of running a pack, in the shadows of responsibility, we found slivers of time. Moments that shouldn’t have existed but did.Like now.I sat in the vast library, the scent of aged paper thick in the air. A book lay open in my lap, but I wasn’t reading. My heart was pounding too loudly for that. Silas was here, somewhere. I could feel it, the awareness of him settling over me like an unspoken truth.And then, as if summoned by my thoughts, the door creaked open.I didn’t look up immediately, but I knew. The air shifted, charged with something
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