Chapter 68
~ Navine ~
I immediately realized how much I’d displayed my worry. How completely I’d lost control in front of everyone. How obvious I’d made everything I was trying so desperately to hide beneath layers of indifference and authority.
The way I’d rushed to her and how my hands had shaken when I touched her, and how my voice had broken when I’d called her name.
None of that had gone unnoticed.
I forced myself to step back from the bed, to physically put distance between myself and Hailey’s pale, vulnerable form lying there like she might disappear if I stared too hard. Forced myself to school my expression, to lock everything back down where it belonged. Forced myself to respond to Yvonne with something approaching normalcy, even though there was nothing normal about the tig
