Danielle POV
The past two months have been... strange. In some ways, they’ve been good. In others, they’ve been unsettling. Charlotte’s been coming and going like smoke on the wind. Every time she returns, the tension between her and Ghost thickens the air so much it’s hard to breathe. They don’t say much to each other, but they don’t need to. Their silence is its own brand of violence.
Knox, on the other hand, has stopped hiding from me. A few weeks ago, I made him take me to one of the private rooms in the club and we locked the door. Since then, things have felt more settled. We’ve fallen into something that feels like rhythm, something real. He promised he’d never leave me again.
And he broke that promise five days ago.
Echo had said there was club business that needed handling els
