Chapter 37
Astrid’s POV I didn’t notice it at first. Dinner wound down slowly, the way it always did when no one wanted to be the first to leave. The hall was warm with voices and clinking plates, the earlier tension easing into something almost comfortable. Caspian sat beside me, relaxed, speaking with his brother while I listened, smiling when spoken to. That was when the feeling brushed against me. Not a thought. Not a sound. A pressure, faint but deliberate like someone watching me from just outside my line of sight. I straightened subtly, fingers tightening around my cup. “Did you feel that”? Akira my wolf asked, alert but not alarmed. “Yes,” I murmured internally. “But I don’t know what it is.” I let my gaze drift casually across the hall. Faces turned toward me and away again, some fr
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