WREN
“How is everything going?"
His deep voice came from behind me. My entire body went rigid immediately from the thought of who I wished it was for just one brief moment.
For a second, I forgot how to breathe…I knew that voice. I had heard it only a handful of times, yet somehow my mind had memorized every detail of it to know it wasn't my Ash.
Still, not much was different between the two voices —
It was still the same depth and it carried the same strange aura that seemed to leave an after effect on me.
My fingers tightened around the vial in my hand and I swallowed a lump that was starting to form. I stared at the liquid inside the vial intending while pretending that I hadn't heard him.
Maybe if I didn't turn around, I could somehow convince myself that he wasn't standing
