Chapter 138. Thorned Rooms and Familiar Demons

Silvia POV

Why was the door locked?

I grabbed the handle hard, twisted it nothing. Not even a click.

Great. Justgreat.

The whole drive here, I told myself if something felt off, if things went sideways, I could just get out.

Pop open the door. Run. Figure it out.

I hadn’t put much stock in this trip being safe, but I had at least clung to the illusion of an exit strategy.

Now even that was gone.

My gut knotted tighter than a coiled spring.

I sat frozen, glaring at the door like it owed me answers.

That’s when I saw his reflection on the passenger-side window.Alpha Enzo. Calm as ever.

Moving around the front of the SUV with the kind of control that didn’t need speed to feel like a threat.

He wasn’t rushing. He knew I’d wait.

That I had nowhere else to go.And maybe he was right.

When he opened my door, I flinched purely on instinctlike he might yank me out or shove me back.

He didn’t.