Lena shut the bathroom door gently.
Then she braced her hands on the marble sink and tried to breathe.
She hadn’t meant for the walls to feel like they were closing in — but they were. Every inch of her home now carried a heaviness she couldn’t shrug off. Eyes lingered too long on her. Words floated close but not close enough. A human among wolves? No one said it outright, but the question curled around her like second skin.
She straightened, staring into the mirror.
She barely recognized herself.
Not because anything about her had physically changed — but because somewhere, in the place between her heartbeat and her thoughts, something had shifted.
Restlessness, like she was on the brink of something she couldn’t name.
She knew who was at the center of that fault line.
She splashe
