_Leon’s POV_
The drive back felt endless.
I kept my eyes on the road but I was not really seeing it. My mind was stuck somewhere else. It kept replaying the same moment again and again. Anya standing there. The shock in her eyes. The way she ran from me like I was the one she feared.
My grip on the steering wheel tightened. My chest felt heavy.
“I saw her,” I said quietly.
Shadow moved inside me. He was restless and tense. You did.
“I am not imagining things.”
Then where did she go?
That question would not leave me. It stayed in my head like a shadow. I had reached that place in seconds. There was no way she could disappear like that. Not unless there was something hidden. Not unless something was wrong inside that place.
My chest tightened again.
“She was there,” I repeated quie
