Chapter 854:

Kristian hesitated, his smile faltering like a candle flickering in a draft. His original intention had been to share a room with Freya, but the wind had clearly shifted.

“I’m not planning to sleep,” he replied, his expression still painted with innocence. “I’ll stay with you.”

Freya’s brow arched, an unmistakable signal. “What?”

Kristian met her gaze, earnest as daylight. “Didn’t you say you were scared? I’ll keep watch by your bedside.”

“That’s unnecessary.”

“Freya…”

“To be honest,” she said plainly, “having you hovering near me would make my skin crawl even more.”

Kristian blinked, genuinely thrown off by the strange irony in her logic. “Why?”

“Because waking up and finding someone looming at my bedside? That’s nightmare fuel,” she said, cutting off his intentions with the precision of a guillotine. “We could leave the light on.”

with the light

to

safe and sound, I’m at peace,” she replied

had crumbled like a house of cards in a storm. In the end, all

suddenly, just as she

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She paused. “Yes?”

Kristian asked, his voice

she said cryptically. “And if you’re not, then I

reply, she disappeared into her room, shutting the door between them like drawing

door, his mask falling away. The emotion in his eyes was no longer veiled—it churned, deep

and retreated to his own

phone, an unread message waited. Natasha had written, “Don’t forget my

screen for a beat, then

appeared almost immediately. Then Natasha wrote, “That’ll

replied, “You know

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