The lockdown started before I even went back inside.
By the time I crossed the threshold, Kade was already in the front hallway checking the locks on every window. Theo passed me with a radio in his hand and a look that said the conversation in the yard had reached everyone. No one asked me how I was. They only moved around me like the walls themselves had gotten thinner.
Damaris’s orders were simple, two of them with me at all times. No exceptions. No short trips. No closed doors unless one of them was on the other side of it.
Kade drew the first shift.
He did not speak when he followed me upstairs. He only waited in the doorway of my room while I washed my face and changed into clean clothes. When I came back out, he was still there, arms crossed, eyes on the hallway behind me instea
