Chapter 118

Nora POV

Maya closes the door behind her with a soft click that feels louder than it should in the small, airless room. The hallway light catches the side of her face for a second before the door seals us in darkness again, leaving only the faint glow from that single recessed bulb overhead. She doesn’t move right away. She just stands there, arms loose at her sides, watching me like she’s waiting for me to catch up to something she already figured out months ago.

I push myself off the wall slowly, wrists still throbbing from the zip ties, and meet her gaze without blinking. “I should have known.”

She tilts her head slightly. “Should you?”

“Yes.” I take one careful step toward her, testing how much space she’ll let me have. “You always knew too much. Every time we talked, every time you showed up exactly when thing