Selene's POV
The door closed behind me, and for the first time all day, no one followed.
No guards shifting outside. No footsteps lingering. No voices waiting to call me back again.
Just real silence.
I stood there for a second longer than I should have, my hand still resting lightly against the door like I expected it to open again.
It didn't.
I moved further into the room, slower now, not because I was tired, but because something in me hadn't settled.
It wasn't my body.
That part I understood.
The ache in my side, the lingering strain in my legs, the weight of everything I had forced myself through—it all made sense.
It was expected.
What didn't make sense was what was happening underneath it.
I exhaled slowly and sat down on the edge of the bed, my
