Chapter 72

Sienna

The silence in the hallway was louder than anything I’d heard all day.

My footsteps echoed softly on the polished floors as I walked away from his room, my chest tight with a thousand things I didn’t know how to say. A thousand things that I could not find myself describing more specifically because I knew that no words could actually suffice to say what I was feeling.

I wasn’t sure what I expected when I went to him. Maybe anger. Coldness. Distance.

But what I got… was softness.

A quiet “thank you.”

A look that made my heart stutter in my chest. I looked. That reminded me of the good that was in him, the good that I knew in the past.

A closeness that neither of us wanted to name. A softness that I did not want to think about, especially after everything.

And that terrified me more than anything. The feeling that I had, the pain that I felt, the gentle moment that he threw at me and I just found myself fearing it.