Chapter 41
The Uneasy Calm
Mary's POV
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The world moved on, even if my heart had not not moved on.
Signing this deal has broken me down more than I had ever been.
At first, I thought maybe whatever we shared that night would make me hold on for a year.
But it's barely three months and I feel suffocated.
“I can't take it anymore”, all the threats, the fear, the constant silence, whispers down the hallway, the tightened securities, all these made me feel like a property more than a human being.
It had been three weeks since the last threat.
Three weeks since Andrew promised me that Elijah was dead and buried in the past.
I really want to believe his words, but it just like there's something that connects Elijah sudden disappearance to three weeks of cold silences, hollow sm
