CHAPTER 93 – THE INTERFERENCE
The city stretched below me, a web of lights and shadows, streets humming with life that didn't matter, that couldn't touch what mattered most. Yet every flicker in that city felt amplified tonight, each movement in the distance twisting my chest tighter, keeping my heart from finding rhythm.
Silas had been trying to keep me in the office long enough to think clearly, to focus on the boardroom, the meetings, the empire but none of that mattered. Not now.
"You're quiet," he said, leaning against the edge of my desk, fingers steepled. Calm, precise, the way he always was. "And I don't like quiet when it comes to you."
"I'm not quiet," I said, though the tremor in my jaw betrayed me. "I'm… considering the variables."
He didn't push. Not yet. He knows better.
A secure line pinged. Silas flicked a glance at the screen and nodded. "Eli's got an update. He's seen movement."
