Chapter 60 – The Safehouse Siege
****Isabelle’s POV****
Location: Countryside Safehouse, Unknown Province
The world had gone quiet.
Too quiet.
The kind of silence that screamed louder than a gunshot.
The kind of silence that meant something was watching.
The car had stopped hours ago, crunching over gravel as Dante’s men ushered her into the secluded safehouse—a wide, two-story stone cottage swallowed by forest, miles from the nearest town. Pine trees towered above the sloped roof, their long limbs brushing against the windows whenever the wind sighed.
Isabelle sat on the edge of the couch now, her eyes flicking to every shadow, her fingers clenching a blanket that no longer offered comfort. The fireplace crackled, casting amber light across the room, but no warmth reached her ches
