You Should Be Afraid

Absolute, suffocating panic set in the exact instant his words registered in her sleep-addled brain. The calm she had felt just seconds ago shattered into a million jagged, irreparable pieces. Serena’s lungs locked up entirely, completely forgetting how to draw in oxygen as she stared at the man sitting utterly comfortably in the worn armchair of her supposedly secure motel room. It was the very m