Chapter Thirty-Two

Savannah

The door shuts behind Beckett, and the sound lands wrong in my chest, like the house gets too big all at once and my lungs forget how to fill it. The click isn’t loud, nothing dramatic, but my body hears it anyway, like it’s a signal that the protection just walked out and I’m supposed to stand here and pretend I’m fine with that.

Corbin doesn’t move away from me, and I don’t move away fr