Unexpected Solace

Hazel’s Pov

The world tilted the moment I stepped out of the hotel. My heart sank, my head spun, and the air felt too heavy to breathe. Everything around me blurred—the ground, the noise, the sunlight. I felt… numb. The scene in Silas’s office replayed in fragments: his cruel words, that cold, distant gaze that stripped me of warmth. The man I had just faced wasn’t the same one who once taught me