Lena
The café went silent.
Not completely.
People still whispered.
Phones glowed.
Someone complained about the power outage.
But for me—
Everything narrowed to that window.
And the figure who had vanished.
My heartbeat slammed painfully against my ribs.
“You saw that too,” I said.
Kane didn’t answer.
Which was the answer.
His shoulders had gone rigid.
Dangerously still.
I hated how that scared me more than the shadow itself.
Emergency lights painted the café red.
The atmosphere felt unreal.
Like we had stepped into someone else’s nightmare.
Zara clutched my arm.
“Please tell me that was just some random student.”
Kane was already moving.
Toward the exit.
My stomach dropped.
“Where are you going?”
He pulled on his gloves.
“To find him.”
Absolutely not.
I grabbed
