The voice kept plaguing my thoughts and nothing outside my own head seemed to matter anymore.
Every muscle in my body remained locked so tightly that they ached. My jaw throbbed from grinding my teeth, yet I couldn’t force myself to relax.
Every thought led back to her.
Sylvia.
Her scent refused to leave me.
It lingered in my lungs, haunting every breath, while the image of her sat burned into my memory.
Those wide blue eyes. The colour rising into her cheeks. The way she’d gripped the edge of the table as though the ground beneath her had disappeared.
And the way she’d looked at me…Like she wanted answers neither of us possessed.
Shock had been there. Confusion, too.But beneath both…Something else.Something that made my pulse refuse to settle even beneath the icy water.
She’d fel
