Chapter 36

Sienna

I noticed it immediately.

And no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, pretend that it did not exist, pretend that it was only in my head, I couldn’t.

Damon was hovering. And he was being too obvious about it, annoying, and even rude.

At first, I thought it was just coincidence. That he was simply there by chance, by obligation, by whatever excuse I could come up with to convince myself that he wasn’t actively doing it. I wanted to believe that he had things to be taking care of, and that was why he was around me.

But as the days passed, I realized I was wrong. I realized that I was being nothing more than a fool to think that it was a mere coincidence.

He wasn’t just there.

He was making sure that I was never alone. He was making sure to monitor everything that I was doing. It is making sure to spend as much as time around me and that was not something that I understood.

Everywhere I went, he was close by. Whether it was