~Arabella ~
The room felt strangely quiet after his last words, as if the walls themselves were holding their breath. The kind of silence that wasn’t empty, but thick something that pressed against the skin and made the air feel heavier than it should have been.
Jed didn’t move for a moment, and neither did I. It was as though we were both suspended in a fragile space that would c***k apart if either of us dared to shift even an inch.
He opened his mouth several times but didn't say anything. He just continued staring at random things.
He looked around the room first, slowly, as if assessing every shadow, every imperfection, every sign that I had been living in a state of constant unraveling. Of course everything is still in a dire state.
There was a softness in his expression I w
