Secrets Refuse to Drown

Tessa’s POV

The house felt like a tomb that afternoon.

All that space, all that silence, and still it pressed on me, heavy as a curse.First Stone pack, Mr Thorne’s Kingdom, used to feel less suffocating. But that day? It just felt like walls closing in. I couldn’t stop pacing.

My boots scraped with every step. I kept chewing at my bottom lip, tasting blood now, but I didn’t care. I needed somethin