Avannah's POV
I slumped into my chair. It had been three days since Raider last showed up. I was starting to get annoyed at myself for being so dramatic. Maybe he was upset—that was probably why he hadn’t come around.
I glanced at the clock. Time crawled painfully slow, as if it were mocking me. I didn’t feel like working at all without Raider here.
“Avannah?” Divine asked as she walked in. “Raider still isn’t here?”
I looked up at her. This woman—again. She could clearly see he wasn’t around, yet she still asked. As if she didn’t already know. As if she wasn’t the reason.
“No,” I replied flatly. “He hasn’t shown up for three days.”
Her eyes widened. “What? Why? Where did he go?”
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. “I don’t know. He didn’t say anything to me.”
She covered her mout
