Lily PoV
I paced endlessly while I waited for Tom to return from their mission and the possibility that things might go terribly wrong terrified me.
What if he ended up like Ryan and Amber? Locked away in a cell somewhere, waiting for his fate to be decided by a bitter old queen.
I groaned loudly and threw myself face down on the bed. There wasn’t even anything that I could do to distract myself from my overactive imagination. Delores had spent a little time with me but she had to dash off to see to something urgent after a little while.
Then, the sound of cars pulling up filtered through the window, and I pushed myself off my bed, running over to see if this was Tom returning home safely.
My heart pounded in my chest as I watched him step out of the car, my eyes roving over his body
