POV: Siena Blake

I didn’t move for a long time after the door closed behind them.

The soft click echoed through the apartment like a gunshot, sharp and final. Everything was quiet now. Too quiet. The kind of silence that felt alive. Like it was pressing in on me from every wall, crawling into my ears and wrapping around my chest until I could barely breathe.

Lucian was gone. Ares too.

But the air still felt heavy, like they hadn’t really left. Like their presence had soaked into the furniture, into the walls, into the very floor beneath my feet. I could almost hear the echoes of their voices. I...