Riley wasn’t sure what to expect when Sebastian asked her to take a seat and listen to him very carefully. Those words spoken by him ever so gently did not make her feel better. In fact, she could feel her heart racing so fast that she found it harder to breathe, to stay still, to think, to do anything at all.
“Your hands are shaking,” Sebastian pointed out.
Riley did her best to wrap those trembling arms around herself, not wanting to disappoint him by seeming weak. She didn’t want him to think she couldn’t handle a little bit of pressure; she could. It was just that the anonymity of what he was going to tell her was really making her nervous.
“I’m fine,” she said to him and tried to smile, but it felt as unreal as possible. “I just… I know you’re going to tell me something bad, and it
