Chapter 170

SIENNA

The morning it began, the city outside was just starting to wake. A pale blush of dawn bled across the skyline, the kind of quiet hour where the world still belonged to shadows and whispers. I should have been asleep, curled into Gideon’s warmth, cocooned in that steady heartbeat of his that had become my safest place.

Instead, I was on my knees in the bathroom, clinging to porcelain, re