Chapter 295

Sienna’s POV

My fingers are still curled from where they held her. I can still feel the shape of her throat, the way her body struggled in the air like something small and breakable.

It should mean nothing. It would have meant nothing… days ago. But now, I couldn’t just watch her.

Eli collapses the moment I release her. Her knees hit the ground hard, the sound echoing through the quiet library as she folds in on herself, coughing, dragging in air like she almost forgot how to breathe. Her hands clutch her throat, fingers pressing into the skin where I know bruises are already forming beneath the surface.

“ Leave and never come back” I said, meaning every single word and she was fearful.

“Sienna” Kieran called me and moved my eyes to him..

something suddenly twists in my chest. Awareness Of what I just did. Of how easily I could have done worse. My gaze lifts slowly, meeting Eli’s eyes again. And that is when I see it, Fear. She sees it to