Chapter 49: No Real Risk
Lizzie
The moment Roman said those words, it felt like the entire world didn’t just slow down—it stilled in a way that was unnatural, almost suffocating.
As though something unseen had reached into the fabric of reality itself and pressed pause, holding everything in place just long enough for the weight of what he’d said to settle heavily on my chest.
The room didn’t shift, the soft lullaby playing from the small device on the bedside table didn’t falter, Andrea didn’t stop suckling gently from the bottle in his arms, and yet none of it seemed real anymore because all I could hear was the echo of his voice and the certainty behind it, the kind that left no room for denial or deflection, the kind that made my stomach twist painfully.
I shrank back, heart h
