(Elara)
The silence surrounded me heavily as I leaned on the door.
I could still feel Mira's tight grip on my hand. Her words hung heavily in the air around me:
You need to do a much better job at hiding how you feel about Damon.
It shouldn’t have shaken me the way it did. But it did.
Because I knew she wasn’t wrong.
I sat down at the edge of my bed as my chest Rose and fell. It had been an eventful night and it wasn't morning yet. The glowing words from the screen at the east room flashed in my head once more.
We’ve been looking for you. You’re not safe there.
I dug my nails into my palms. Who were they? A rescue? A trap? Or Damon himself, baiting me into revealing a desperation I couldn’t afford to show?
My thoughts spun until the room itself felt like it was shrinking. And th
