CHAPTER TWELVE
Cassie collapsed onto her bed, trembling all over. She realized she was sitting on the bare mattress, because the covers had been ripped from the bed, the pillows torn out of the pillowcases and tossed onto the floor.
She breathed deeply, trying her hardest not to burst into hysterical tears, knowing she couldn’t allow herself to fall to pieces right now. The unknown person who’d trashed her room would be waiting for an extreme reaction. They were probably hoping their actions would push her over the edge. She couldn’t let them know how badly this had shaken her. She simply wasn’t going to let them win.
Thinking this way helped her to cling to her sanity. After a few minutes, her shock had ebbed and she was calm enough to reason again.
There was a chance her passport cou
