Chapter 206

SIENNA

When the door slammed, I barely knew what I was doing. My hand found the lock and turned it before I even realized I’d moved. The quiet that followed was absolute—thick, suffocating, and heavy with the sound of my own heartbeat.

I pressed my back against the door and slid down until I was sitting on the carpet. My chest hurt, the kind of ache that isn’t sharp but deep, spreading slowly t