Moonlight Refuge

Magnus’s POV

The hallway was empty and the house was silent around me.

My hands still shook.

It had been over thirty years since that day, and the memories still haunted me, still made me feel seven years old and powerless and trapped.

I walked past the main rooms, past the kitchen, and down the west corridor to the hidden door.

I pressed the panel. It clicked and swung inward.

This room was my se