Alessia:
I hadn’t left my room.
Not once.
I couldn’t.
The whole place could have burned to the ground and I wouldn’t have known, because the moment that door had closed behind me the night Alexander doubted me, something inside me had shut down with it.
And I refused to leave the room since.
Especially after I gave myself the little hope, just a small little glimpse, of what things might look like if I chose to trust him… and now, that treason felt deeper than anything that I knew.
The room was quiet in a way that felt too loud. The kind of silence that pressed on your ears until your thoughts had nowhere to hide. And I had to admit, even the punishment Lucien would have thrown at me would have been easier than the feeling I had.
You are going to need to breathe, Alessia. You ar
