Ella
As soon as Kane and I left the hall, the room shifted, like the calm before glass shatters.
I walked standing beside Kane, his hand warm at my lower back, when I heard Kiara calling out loudly to Paige.
Suddenly , I heard a brittle, broken laugh. It rang across the banquet hall and curled under my skin.
I turned.
Paige wasn’t lying on the floor anymore.
She had somehow woken up and she was smiling.
And that scared me more than anything else she’d done tonight.
Her lips curved slowly, like the expression physically hurt to form. Her eyes looked empty.
Empty.
Everyone else seemed frozen, unsure whether the spectacle was finally over or gearing up for something worse.
The orchestra had long since stopped playing. Crystal glasses trembled slightly on their stems, disturbed b
