She lay on the bed with her eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling without moving. The morning sun had already filled the room with light but she didn’t have the strength to get up. Her body was still, but her mind was anything but. Her thoughts kept spinning, circling back to last night’s news. She concluded that she wasn't safe with him, recalling how the real Emilia was kidnapped. She was afraid that something bad might happen to her as well.
A knock suddenly came on the door. She didn’t answer.
“It’s Brie,”
She still didn’t move. The knock kept coming and she was forced to cover her ears with the pillows. She just wanted silence, peace from everything clawing at her. But the knocking didn’t stop, it only grew more insistent.
Finally, not wanting to cause a panic, she dragged herse
