Chapter 123 Idle? What Is That?

• Katie's POV
• For a heartbeat, I thought the chaos might never end—that I’d spend the rest of my days refereeing between one smug vampire and his equally smug devil counterpart, while the twins placed bets and Sebastian silently despaired in the background. But the noise did fade, eventually. The chamber emptied, leaving only the echo of Lucifer’s low chuckle, Vladimyr’s simmering glare, and my wolf’s amusement buzzing under my skin.
• I told myself it was fine, that peace might linger for at least a day. But peace in this castle was never more than a fragile illusion. By morning, Vladimyr was gone from our bed, gone from me, pouring himself into the crumbling walls and wounded souls of the North. And that was how it began—the day I watched him unravel before my eyes…