Chapter 44

*Elora*

I didn’t sleep.

I couldn’t sleep.

The note sat on my nightstand like it was alive. Like it was watching me. Waiting for me to reach for it, even though I had already read the damn thing a hundred times in my head.

You’re asking too many questions. Stop. Before we stop you.

It looped endlessly in my mind, a chant I couldn’t silence. My fingers ached from how tightly I kept clenching them in