The mansion was eerily quiet now as it always used to be by this time of the night, but considering what had happened back there, the silence felt heavier than than.
She was laying in her bed, tossing and turning as the phone glowed in her hand. Sleep wouldn't come. Because every single time she closed her eyes, her chest suddenly went right and her mind started to replay everything that Arthur had said inside the car.
Anytime she remembered what he said to her, a chill ran down her spine. I sent some men to take care of Jacob. The words rattled in her bones.
She had doubted him, screamed inside that he had gone too far and now the silence of her room coupled with the thoughts only.made it worse. Her thumb slid across the glass of her phone as she refreshed the news again and again.
