Sacrificial Pawn

Three days.

It had been three days since Tessa had died... and I felt suspended in time, unsure over what to do next.

After that night, I had arrived home and walked straight into the shower. The process had taken a while since I had needed to peel off all the clothes that had stuck to me; their condition no longer salvageable at all and would need to be thrown out.

I'd stood under the showerhe