**Blood**.

The days that followed her release from the station moved strangely slow and loud in her head, but also quick in the way everything kept happening. She stayed mostly indoors, definitely it wasn't out of fear or caution, but out of irritation. Matteo was gone, Bianca had stepped in as though she ran the police force, and everyone around her suddenly seemed so damn unsure of what to say. No one mentioned his name around her, no one brought up the questioning. It was like the entire ...