Mallory
My hands were clenched in nervous fists as I knocked on Daniel’s door.
“Come in, Mallory,” I could hear the deep exhale accompanying his words. I sighed, he didn’t want to see me, but it would be over soon.
Entering the room, I started talking with my gaze fixed on my feet. “Daniel, I know you are avoiding me, that you probably changed your mind and it is all too much for you to deal with, I understand that…”
“Mallory, I am avoiding you, but not for the reason you are imagining.” His words attracted my gaze towards him and I gasped as I saw his state and the mess around him.
His room that was always perfectly tidy and neat was now a huge mess. There were clothes and wound dressing and bandages everywhere, even a pile of maps on the floor. But much more shocking than that,
