Chapter 166

Sienna

I walked out of the nursery knowing that I was going to go to the room and yet not able to go to their room. Something in me told me that I needed to go elsewhere. I couldn’t be in the room by his side, not yet.

Not when I could not confront him with what I had in my mind. Not when a thousand words were threatening to spill and yet neither one of them was going to serve what I wanted to say without being understood in a way that I knew would turn things against me.

The sterile scent of the infirmary greeted me the moment I stepped in. It was oddly quiet, the soft beeping of machines the only sound to break the stillness. I didn’t know why I was here, why I needed to come. But something inside me demanded answers, and Delilah was the only one who could give them to me.

The woman who somehow managed to play a bond that I did not think to be playable.

I found her in the far corner, lying in a bed, pale but awake. Her arm was bandaged and her