ZANE
The silence in the house was loud. It was not the kind that brought peace, this one screamed at me from every corner and I could hear it in the creak of the hardwood floors and in the echo of my own footsteps.
For the first time in weeks, Dalia was gone and along with her was Evelyn. Their perfume didn’t hang in the air anymore and their voice didn’t echo down the halls and didn’t grate in my nerves as they acted like nothing was wrong.
I made a stupid deal with Evelyn and I should have never done that.
It was stupid of me.
I could admit it now.
The plan has been simple. She was to come back into the house and help me make Tessa jealous, light a spark and stir something in her.
And while I know that it worked for a moment, looking back now, it was disgusting and desperate
