Chapter 219

Ethan

I stood at the door for a second longer than I should’ve.

It wasn’t because I wanted to, It was because I knew that Sienna was right. I knew that I had made a mistake and that right now I needed to pay the price of it, regardless of how painful it was.

The wood was cold beneath my knuckles after I knocked, the air still enough to make the beat of my heart feel louder than it was. It was cold to the point where I debated on whether or not it was a good idea for me to be here.

I knocked again.

But no answer came.

I turned the handle anyway. If she was going to listen, then I was going to be now. It was the only chance that I had. Speak to her. If I allowed her to give in to her pain alone, then I had lost her for good. She was not going to be willing to forgive me for that.

She wouldn’t scream with Lysandra asleep. That at least I knew she wanted her sister to get as much as rest as she could. And that was something that I wanted