Ellie’s POV.
“Hey, are you okay?”
Lavinia’s voice came through the phone. I didn’t answer right away. I just let out a long sigh and stared at the ceiling, phone pressed to my ear. The silence stretched on for the next five minutes. All I could hear was the sound of my own breathing.
How was I supposed to answer that? I didn’t even know how I felt.
For days now, I’d been hiding in the guest room. Ever since I found out who they really were, what they were, I hadn’t had the courage to face them. I only came out when I was sure they weren’t around like a ghost in a house that didn’t belong to me.
Even so, they still left food outside my door every day. Little gestures that spoke louder than words. All of them did it, except Hyde. I didn’t expect him to, anyway.
Still, it touched me. I
