Chapter 54

**Ronan**

I wake to cold sheets. At first, I tell myself she’s just slipped out early, maybe to the surveillance room again, but the space beside me is cold. I sit up fast, eyes sweeping the room on instinct, and that’s when I see it on the nightstand, a folded scrap of paper like a blade left out in the open. My stomach drops. I snatch it up, grip too tight, edges crumpling under my fingers befor