The footsteps continued to echo, louder and closer with each passing second, until they filled the entire room, reverberating off the cold cement walls like the heartbeat of some unseen beast. Each step, calculated and unhurried, only heightened the suffocating tension as I fought to keep my breathing steady. I was drenched, trembling from both the cold and the raw fear clutching at my throat.
“Where is she?” The voice was closer now, clearer. The person wasn’t shouting, but the tone carried a cold authority that left little room for disobedience. My mind struggled to process it, tried to place it within my life, but it was no voice I knew, no, not Reggie’s commanding tone or Draco’s smoother lilt. This was someone else, someone who moved like he owned every shadow in the room, and I coul
