Ruby
Falling asleep again had been hard. I had lain in bed on my back with my sheets up to my chin, but my eyes were trained on my door, wondering if at any moment Xavier would burst in to confront me for snooping around last night. I had seen something I shouldn’t have, that was very clear.
My brain kept replaying him reaching into that man's chest as easily as if it was butter and his hand was a knife. He had seemed indifferent, almost as if he was doing a mundane task like buttering his bread, not taking a life.
I realized that while I'd been so busy isolating myself, I'd also been wasting the chance I'd been given to learn about the people I'd be spending an unknown amount of time with. Hiding away in my room was not the way to survive in this new life.
I rolled onto my side and sc
