CARDAN MONTESSORI Finally! Something wasn’t right. And I didn’t need a vision, a full moon, or a damned prophecy to tell me that. I could feel it—thick in the air, coiled like tension before a storm. It started with the doctor. Every time I walked into the hospital, his posture stiffened, like he was hiding something. Every question I asked was met with half-answers. Vague updates. More tests. More time. I didn’t like waiting, not when Paedyn was dying… Not when the clock was grinding her down. The worst part? Kai.. He’d been with me since the beginning—loyal, sharp, dependable. But suddenly, he was always in the background...always hovering near the doctor. Always whispering. The second time I walked in on them whispering in the corner of the blood storage room, they jerked a

