Chapter 250

GIDEON

I hated leaving her.

The feeling settled in my chest the second I stepped away from Sienna, heavy and corrosive, like I’d willingly reopened a wound I’d just finished stitching shut. Every instinct I had screamed to stay; to sit with her, to hold her, to guard her from the waiting and the fear and the silence that would creep back in the moment I walked out the door.

But instinct wasn’t