Nyra:
“I’m so sorry, Angora.”
The words were still ringing in my mind, pulling me back to the nightmare that made my whole body tremble.
I still remembered the pain and tears in Kail’s eyes, the way the tears slipped, the way his tone was so helpless and scared, like he had been through this and the regret was still there. Something very hot stung my right hand and I flinched back to present.
“Oh God!” I winced as I kept the coffee mug back that tilted on my hand. The warm liquid burned my hand terribly, I thrashed my hand around to lighten the pain and heated sensation, as if it would make a difference. But then I realized what actually happened, and my eyes went out of sockets.
Warm coffee bled into the stack of documents I had spent the entire morning preparing for Kail. The do
