Chapter Thirty One

TESSA

“Can I come in?”

I saw the muscles on his back go stiff. That was the only hint that Vaughn had heard me. Other than that he had neither moved an inch nor replied. He took off the watch from his wrist and roughly chucked it on the dresser. His hands caught my sight. His knuckles looked busted and there was dried blood.

With that deafening silence, the air was heavy with tension. Not carin