♛Harley♛
I didn’t know how long I had been alone in that room. It could have been hours. Or it could have been days. My sense of time had warped and frayed until there was only a haze of fear, anger, and a desperate, clinging hope. Nyra was silent, but it didn’t matter. It wasn’t as if we had anything to talk about. It was the same thing that had happened the last time Malrik had kidnapped me. I heard the lock, and I turned to see Malrik. He pushed open the door, and I frowned. I watched as a twisted feeling of dread washed over. Malrik set up a folding table with a laptop and a single chair. He shut and locked the door before he faced me. The mundane act, the way he positioned the chair to face the screen, how he plugged in the charger, it all made my skin crawl. He sat down, and I watch
