Chapter 59 — Alone in the Safe HousePOV: Isabella

Matteo secured me to the lower safe house but…

I woke to silence.

Not the peaceful kind that comforts you after sleep, but the heavy, restless silence that presses down on your chest and makes the air taste thick. The sun hadn’t yet crested the horizon, but the pale light creeping through the blinds caught the dust in golden threads. I blinked, disoriented, as the weight of the night settled back on my shoulders.

Adrian wasn’t ...