Gwen
The young man jerked upright like he’d been electrocuted. His eyes widened in pure panic, all the confidence draining out of him in an instant.
“What the—?” He scrambled off me, nearly tripping over his own feet in his rush to get up. “f**k all this!”
He didn’t even glance back. Not once. The door slammed behind him so hard the walls seemed to rattle, leaving me sprawled across the bed with my dress half undone and my heart hammering for an entirely different reason now.
I lay there for a second, frozen.
Then the shaking started.
I slid off the mattress on unsteady legs and crouched down beside the bed, arms wrapping tightly around myself as another round of sharp, cracking pops echoed from somewhere below. My teeth chattered. Cold fear flooded through me, rushing in and drownin
