As Leo Shaw gently tried to ease Mina Zane back onto her soft pillows, the little girl clung to him with surprising strength for someone who'd just emerged from such intense suffering. Her small hands fisted in the fabric of his shirt, and her big eyes—still a bit glassy from the ordeal—looked up at him with pure, unfiltered reluctance.
"Big brother Leo... can't you stay a little longer?" she pleaded softly, her voice carrying that sweet, childlike lilt that always tugged at his heartstrings. "Mina wants you to keep her company..."
The dorm room felt intimately quiet now, the earlier tension dissipating into a warm, lingering coziness. Fairy lights twinkled softly along the walls, casting a gentle glow over plush toys scattered on shelves and the faint scent of vanilla from Mina's body l
