Chapter Six – The Voice That Anchors
Evandra closed her chamber door behind her and pressed her back against the wood, exhaling as though she had been holding her breath for hours. The silence of the room enveloped her, soft but suffocating. She let the invitations drop onto her vanity with a dull thud, her hands trembling more than she cared to admit.
The day had drained her, but it wasn’t the errands or the endless decisions. It was Lefu.
Every look, every word—or lack of words—seeped into her like rain into soil, soaking her until she didn’t know what to feel anymore. One moment she caught warmth flickering in his gaze, the next, distance like a wall too high to climb. She had seen the way his jaw had tightened when she spoke of the other Alpha mates. She had felt the ripple of tensi
