Tabitha’s POV
The house feels too quiet. It’s the kind of silence that wraps itself around you, making you feel like something is wrong. The unease that’s been building in me all day hasn’t let up, not since Fabrizio left. He didn’t say much when he walked out the door, but I could see it in his eyes—something was going on. Something dangerous.
I hate not knowing. I hate sitting here, waiting, while everything around me feels like it’s on the edge of falling apart. Fabrizio thinks he’s protecting me by keeping me in the dark, but all it’s doing is driving me crazy. I can’t help but feel like I’m stuck in this mansion, cut off from the outside world, while everything that matters is happening somewhere else.
I pace around the room, glancing at my phone for the hundredth time, but there’
