Falyn Pov
There was something about his words that caught a hold of me, holding me tightly, so very tightly, I wasn’t sure if I could breathe. How to exist, how to keep going? ‘I’m waiting for you to come back,’ I shivered, looking into the empty room around me, Cain’s words fresh in my mind even after hours of passing. For the rest of the evening, even during dinner, nothing had changed. He was still ignoring me, his eyes absent from mine as he talked to Delphine. Despite that, and even though I was beside Arlo the whole time for dinner, my eyes couldn’t stop staring at Cain, my mind couldn’t stop thinking about him, and about his words. Arlo was exhausted and unfocused, he wasn’t paying much attention at all, and I had used the opportunity to simply gaze at Cain. I can’t remember the la
