Dangerous Promises

SERAFINA

For a second, he didn’t move. He just stood there, still looking outside, as if he could already see the next battle forming beyond the walls of the house.

Then he turned and his eyes softened the moment they landed on me.

“You’re done?” he asked.

I nodded. “Yes.”

There was a silence between us, not uncomfortable, not tense, just… careful. Like we both knew that the quiet moments were tem