Chapter Seventy One

LARA

I shut the bedroom door and leaned back against it. There was this deeply uncomfortable feeling that squeezed my chest.

I stared at the floor while struggling to breathe.

But I could feel the embarrassment moving up my skin.

My eyes stung. I blinked fast, but the tears still gathered. It wasn’t from sadness. Not entirely. It was humiliation. Thick, heavy humiliation that sat at the base of my