Elowen's POV
I paused for just a heartbeat and I kept walking.
You tell me to wait and I just wait? I don't think so. If you dare, come and make me.
He didn't.
I lay in the dark of my room and listened for footsteps. The estate was quiet. I could hear the rain that had started sometime after dinner, soft and steady against the window.
Eventually I heard them. Measured and unhurried, the same footsteps I had been mapping in my sleep for the better part of a year. They came down the corridor and slowed and I held my breath and they kept going, straight past my door and into the room across the hall.
His door closed and the corridor went quiet.
I let out a slow breath and stared at the ceiling. The one who falls first always ends up like this. I had known that before I fell and I had
