I looked around the room, my eyes tracing the clean lines of the walls and the heavy, reinforced frame of the door. The air in here felt different… stiller, somehow, as if the very molecules were being filtered and monitored. After everything he had just told me, the idea of safety felt like a fragile dream. I turned back to Luther, my voice barely a whisper.
"Are we absolutely sure about this, Luther? Are we sure nothing can penetrate this room?"
Luther didn't answer immediately. He stood up and walked toward the center of the suite, his presence dominant even in his exhaustion. "I am unsure of a lot of things in this life, Alicia. I live in a world where the floor can fall out from under me at any second. But I absolutely trust my own security measures. I didn’t just hire guards; I’v
