The Resignation

Hadley's POV

I barely slept.

I'd watched that video Maddox sent me somewhere around eleven times, maybe twelve, I stopped counting after a while. Each time it ended I'd just sit there in the dark of my bedroom, phone resting on my chest, staring up at the stars in the ceiling with something warm and unfamiliar turning over quietly in my stomach.

Not dread. Not the hollow ache I'd carried around fo