Chapter 171

Ethan

The night had crept in quietly, but the weight in my chest didn’t ease with the darkness.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t help but find myself getting lost in my thoughts, getting somewhat distracted. More distracted than I wanted to be.

I was leaning against the balcony railing outside my room, the cool wind doing little to numb the heat I felt rising beneath my skin. It wasn’t from anger. It wasn’t from the full moon drawing near either.

It was her.

Delilah.

The same woman I once saw as a threat, the same woman I told myself I wouldn’t trust no matter what. And yet, every time I passed by the infirmary… every time I caught her scent or saw her dark eyes flinch from pain, something in me twisted.

And when I saw her crying, something in me told me that there was a lot more about her than we knew. There was a side to her story to her that we did not know. That maybe we did not see.

I wasn’t supposed to feel this.