SERAFINA
The door locked from the inside.
Click!
I knew Dorian was still here. He was… inside, right?
I don’t know why that settled in my chest like a weight I hadn’t agreed to carry.
The apartment went completely still again.
Dorian hadn’t said a word since we folded laundry like we were on the cover of some passive-aggressive newlywed blog.
Not a sound or even a glance.
Just hands brushing for half a second too long, then him walking out.
But that click
That damn lock clicking
..reminded me that whatever space I thought I had to breathe… wasn’t mine anymore.
Ugh. Why’s peace suddenly so expensive?
My pulse stalled, quickened, then stalled again. Like even it didn’t know what the hell to do with this moment.
I stayed where I was, hunched on the bed-like sofa on the living r
