ELODIE'S POV
I didn’t think he would actually come, I mean he had promised me that he could help me and he would but I thought he was just saying that to get whatever he wanted from me. I wasn’t even sure of what he wanted from me because he hadn't said what it was he wanted from me. After everything that had happened, after the way the night had unraveled, a part of me had convinced itself that Nathan’s promise had just been that, a promise spoken too easily in the dark.
But he came, just before dawn. A soft knock sounded at my door, quieter than the others had been. Careful. Intentional. I was already awake. I opened the door quickly and there he was. Leaning slightly against the frame like he had been there longer than I realized.
“You look like you didn’t sleep,” he said.
“I didn’t
