60

Draven's pov

The stench of old leather and mildew greeted me the moment I pried open the rusted panel behind Cassian's bookshelf.

A hidden mechanism. Just like him,deceptive, calculated, always with something tucked beneath the surface.

The faint grind of stone shifted as the panel gave way to darkness. I flicked on the flashlight, the beam slicing through thick dust and cobwebs. The passage sloped downward, cramped and stale. The air grew colder with each step I took, like secrets had been frozen in time.

And then I found it.

The room.

Cassian's secret chamber.

The walls were lined with monitors, most dead now, but some still flickered faintly with old footage,grainy images from different angles of our estate, our corridors, our training grounds. Even our bedrooms. My blood turned to ice.

He'd been watching us.

No, not just us.

Her.