Lilith woke to silence.
Not the peaceful kind, not the soft hush of morning she expected after last night with Zane or the steady hum of the city she had gotten used to, but something heavier, stranger. The air itself felt thick, pressing down on her like a weight. Even the gulls that normally screamed over her rooftop seemed muted today.
Her eyes flicked toward the window. Pale light slanted through the curtains, soft and gray. The rain had stopped sometime in the night, but the world outside looked… wrong. Still. Waiting.
She sat up slowly, the sheet slipping down her arm, goosebumps rising along her skin. The silence wasn’t just in her head. She could feel it, in her chest, her bones, the strange hum that had lived in her blood since she was a child.
The hunter’s sense. The one th
