Chapter 203
~ Hailey ~
I leaned against my bedroom door, my heart pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears, each heavy thud echoing through my skull like a drumbeat I couldn’t quiet no matter how hard I tried to steady myself.
This was a mess. A complete, absolute disaster, the kind of tangled situation people warn you about but you never believe you’ll actually live through in real time.
Both brothers were out there. In my living room. Both having brought me food. Both clearly staking some kind of claim, even if neither of them had said the words directly, the intent still obvious in their posture and tone and presence.
Nathaniel, who I'd slept with at Obscura, in that reckless blur of neon lights and loud music and poor judgment that had felt freeing at the time and terrifying in
