Chapter 204

SIENNA

Morning came before I was ready for it.

The pale light pushed its way through the curtains, brushing the walls with that uncertain grey that never knows if it belongs to night or day. I must have drifted in and out of sleep for an hour at a time, hearing footsteps in the hallway, the murmur of Celine’s voice, Brooks’s low replies. Every sound reminded me that something had cracked open