Mounting Suspicion

"KAELEN'S POV"

Behind the closed doors of my office, the quiet felt suffocating. Sabine had never needed an excuse to slip out of the house behind my back before. We had spent the previous day together, yet she hadn't bothered to mention having plans to go anywhere today. Every piece of it looked shady, only feeding the doubts already sitting in my gut.

Lately, disappearing without a word had b