NORA
The pool was warm when I slipped in.
I hadn't planned it,I hadn't thought about it, I just walked in still dressed in my evening clothes and kept going until the water rose to my shoulders and the noise in my head went quiet for just a moment.
I sat on the submerged step with my back against the tiled wall and stared at the surface above me.
Raphael had threatened an entire room full of alphas today.
For the sake of Eli and me.
And I had sat across from him at dinner not knowing any of it, watching his jaw stay tight and his eyes slide away, thinking about Serena, thinking about myself, thinking about everything except what he had actually done today while I was sitting in my office drowning in my own thoughts,
My throat tightened,
Then the memories started coming back
