[A WHILE AGO]
NOELLE
The door creaks open so softly I almost miss it. My heart is jackhammering from the replay of the fall in my mind and Azren's blank expression. It's been haunting me since he left me in here. My ribs still ache as if they remember every step I hit on the way down, even though the pain has dulled to a deep, throbbing bruise.
I snatch the bedside lamp before I can think. The base is heavy, the cord ripping free from the wall with a faint pop. I swing it up like a club, my grip tight.
Sabrina freezes in the doorway, one hand still on the knob, her head tilted. She's back in her pristine white coat now, her green eyes wide with that fake concern. It makes me want to hurl. She's a bloody chameleon. That much I'm sure of.
"Don't come any closer," I rasp. I hate how smal
