CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Puffy Eyes and Dinner
~Zella's POV~
I didn't stop to think.
The moment I heard Brynn's voice outside the door I was off the counter and across the kitchen and down the hall and into my room with the door closed behind me before I had finished deciding to move. I leaned against it in the dark and pressed both hands flat against my chest and listened to my own heartbeat doing something completely unreasonable.
I was not dressed for company.
I grabbed the first thing I could find, a loose gown hanging on the back of the chair and pulled it on and sat on the edge of the bed and tried to make my face do something normal.
From the living room I could hear Brynn's voice, bright and happy the way it got when things with Theo were good, asking where I was. Evander said I wa
