Chapter 126: Learn to Say No
Wherever Giselle Frost appeared, attention gathered.
It was not something she did on purpose. It worked more like a rule written into the world. A room could be full of people talking, studying, pretending not to gossip, and then Giselle would step into it and change the pressure without raising her voice.
The girl beside Elias had been smiling a second ago.
She was enjoying herself. A pretty boy with bright eyes and a gentle voice had explained a problem to her, and she was still riding the small thrill of being the person he had turned toward. Then a chill slid over the back of her neck.
It was not the air-conditioning. The library temperature had not changed. The feeling was stranger than that, like the body recognizing danger before the mind could name it. As if a knife had stopped just short of her forehead, close enough that even with her eyes closed, she would have felt the edge waiting there.
The girl turned her head slowly.
