The moment that the doorknob rattled, I knew that it was Dae. Truthfully, I was somewhat surprised that I had enough time to do everything that I had done, but here I was, waiting in the centre of my chambers as if he was about to barge right through the door that I had just locked. It was something that wouldn’t surprise me. Considering everything else that Dae had managed to get up to, I felt like breaking down a door wouldn’t be very high on the list of shocking events.
“Anoa…”
That one singular word managed to say so much, managed to hold to many threats that I wasn’t remotely close to being able to work through them privately. I remained completely still. There was no guarantee that he knew that I was here. Perhaps he was simply trying to find me, and this happened to be his first
