Ethan POV

The study feels suffocating. Walls pressing in.

Three days. It's been three days since we returned from Dark Rock Pack.

Three days of uneasy peace. Of careful distance. Of Grace seeming distracted. Elsewhere.

Today feels different somehow. She's been more restless. More on edge.

I tell myself it's just lingering trauma from the battle. From Lenore's attack. From everything that happened.

But unease sits heavy in my gut.

Papers ...