Chapter 258

GIDEON

The door clicked shut behind Valeria, the sound quiet but heavy enough to settle into my bones.

For a second, the room felt hollow.

Like all the air had been pulled out with her.

Sienna didn’t move immediately. She stood where I had left her, shoulders tight, eyes still fixed on the door as if she expected Valeria to burst back through it laughing.

Then she turned to me.

“What are you