🖱️Victor🖱️The lake had gone quiet in that soft way that feels unreal, like the world lowers its voice when it sees two people trying not to mess something up. The lights floating on the water swayed gently, and Jayden was beside me, knees pulled up slightly, staring at the reflection like he was trying to read answers written inside it.I had been quiet for too long.My chest felt tight. Not pain. Not fear exactly. More like standing at the edge of something that could either save you or ruin you, and knowing there was no middle ground.“Jayden,” I said finally, my voice lower than I intended, “can I ask you for a favor.”He turned his head toward me slowly, eyes soft, open, not guarded the way they used to be around me.“If it’s something within my power,” he said easily, “why not.”That should have made it easier.It did not.I rubbed my palm against my thigh, trying to ground myself. For someone who had faced monsters, councils, execution threats, and my father’s rage without bl
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