Caleb
The moment Sonya left my quarters, the air seemed to settle, yet my mind refused to do the same.
I sat there, elbows on my knees, staring at the door she had just walked through.
She hadn’t flinched.
Not once.
She stood in front of me with that sharp little smile, her eyes calm, her voice steady as if the history between us didn’t exist. As if she hadn’t once been someone I’d trusted.
I called her Sonya and she didn’t refute.
She hadn’t even bothered to hide who she was from me.
That told me two things: first, she knew she couldn’t fool me, and second… she didn’t think she had to.
It was a strange kind of arrogance, walking around in Erick’s territory with that carefully polished charm, fooling everyone but me.
I’d watched her before, in passing the way she laughed with h
