Chapter 311

MADELINE

I poured a cup of tea, my hands shaking. The house was silent, too silent. No more sounds of Declan running around. Just quiet. The kind of quiet that makes you feel like something’s wrong, even when nothing’s happening.

The door opened. Donovan’s mother walked in, her clothes covered in blood—blood that wasn’t hers. She looked like she’d just come from a fight, like she’d been in the mid