Chapter 184

SIENNA

The figure outside didn’t speak. Didn’t need to. His presence was enough—solid, hulking and silent as a blade. The driver’s door opened, the creak slicing through the cold night air, and then rough hands clamped onto my arm.

“Move.”

The voice wasn’t Silvio’s. Too flat, too utilitarian. A soldier.

My body resisted, instinct pulling back like a tether snapping tight. But resistance ea