Chapter 66

Serena’s POV

Nightshade felt different the moment we returned.

Not safer.

Not relieved.

Just… quiet. Wrong. As if something inside the fortress had shifted while we were gone.

Lucien remained close behind me, his hand resting on Leo’s back as I carried our son through the courtyard. The guards bowed as we passed, but their eyes kept darting to the shadows, uneasy.

Ava murmured inside me, Something is off. Badly off.

I agreed.

But we made it to our chambers without ...