Chapter 18Kai
Now that I’m wearing my joggers, a blanket’s covering me, and with Toby looking after me, I feel slightly less anxious to hear Franklin’s voice coming from my living room, but it still sends a cold shiver down my spine.
“Toby? Why are you here?” I hear Franklin ask, surprised.
Before Franklin let himself into my apartment, there had been the jingling sound of keys coming from the hallway, the clicking sound of my door unlocking, and Toby jumping up and rushing to the living room fully dressed to meet him. It’s five to six, Toby told me, and it made me realize something: if he never came to check up on me, I would still be lying here, naked, cold, frustrated, and helpless. Time would have passed excruciatingly slowly, the minutes crawling by in what felt like days. Just ima
