Chapter 93 — (Lucien & Serena) LOVE vs DUTY

Serena POV

The courtyard didn’t empty the way it usually did after crises. People drifted, lingered, pretended to talk while their eyes stayed fixed on us like we held the last flickering torch in a cave. Fear clung to the air like smoke. Wolves don’t like uncertainty—we can face monsters, claws, blood, war. But a threat you can’t punch? A danger that hides in dreams and stars?

That breaks us differently.

Leo squeezed my hand once before ...