RAVENNA
I woke up to the heavy stillness of a room I couldn’t recognize at the moment. My eyes blinked against the haze of half-sleep, and as the fog lifted, I realized I was lying on a couch in Elias’s living room. For a moment, I thought maybe I had been dreaming, but then my eyes focused and I saw them, Elias and Mira.
I froze.
Elias was sitting there, upright, looking at me. His eyes, those familiar eyes, were fixed on me like I was something fragile. My whole body went cold, my breath hitched in my chest and before I could stop myself, I shot up from the couch so fast my blood rushed to my head. My heart was pounding, and my legs almost moving on their own, carried me backwards until I collided with the door. My hand fumbled with the handle, desperate to open it and run, because th
