Page 234 of Bound By Crimson
She slipped back into the shadows.
And didn’t look back.
Chapter Eighty-Six
Time Is Running Out
She was almost at her door when she paused.
Her eyes drifted down the hallway.
To his.Malachai’s room.
She didn’t mean to walk there.
But her feet moved before her mind could stop them.
She hovered outside for a moment, listening.
No voices. No movement.
Only silence.
She twisted the knob slowly and pushed the door open a crack.
Dark.
She stepped closer.
Empty.
The bed was untouched.
Like no one had slept in it for days.
Her stomach knotted.
Where was he?
Why did it feel worse that he wasn’t there?
After everything, it still hurt. She still needed closure. And she hated that.
She backed out of the room, closed the door as gently as she’d opened it, and returned to her own.
But her thoughts wouldn’t settle.
She lay on her bed, eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling she hated more with every passing night.
She rolled to her side. Curled in tighter.
How old was Noah now?
Three months? Maybe four.
Long enough that she should know.
Long enough that she didn’t.
