RED POV
The bedroom suddenly fell into an uneasy silence as I lay against the pillows, my breathing still uneven from whatever the heck I just experienced through the forest.
My pounding in my chest hadn’t settled and I could almost taste blood in my throat and neither had the image of Edith’s grandmother looking at me as though I’d brought death to her doorstep left my head still.
“It’s a—”
No!
I squeezed my eyes shut, I didn’t want to remember anything from the past one hour.
The sound of a briefcase snapping open pulled me from my thoughts and I slowly looked up.
Xavier stood beside the bed, his broad shoulders filling the space as he nonchalantly unpacked several medical instruments, before quietly dropping each on the nightstand beside the bed.
His expression remained unre
