A Dangerous Silence

Dante hadn't said much when we woke up. He'd kissed my forehead, lingered a beat too long, then disappeared into the morning calls with his brothers. His eyes had been pinched, haunted in a way I hadn't seen in months.

Something was wrong.

And I knew better than to push before he was ready to talk.

I had enough chaos of my own to manage.

The east wing reconstruction had been completed. The last cr