Rain and thunders

Previously

…Elias looked at her for a long moment, his dark eyes searching hers. The usual walls he erected seemed to have crumbled, revealing a man stripped bare by the weight of his inherited struggle. In that shared silence, in the aftermath of the unsettling disturbance, a new kind of understanding began to form between them, a fragile alliance forged in the heart of a shadowed estate, bound by secrets and the chilling echo of a force that refused to remain dormant. The mystery remained, a vast, unplumbed ocean, but now, Telma found herself standing on its shore, not with dread, but with a quiet, dangerous determination.