Chapter 29. Marked

It was choking and overwhelming with just the two of us in the room, and the tense silence was making everything so much worse.

After the emotionally draining talk with the girls, I made them call Zion so we could talk, but the sight of him killed all the words in my throat.

I was struggling to come up with what to say, and I couldn’t. My head was blank, and I had no idea how to begin.

“You called for me?” He asked me, solving the problem of what I would say

“No. Stay there,” I practically shouted when he began moving inside the door.

I was already going crazy with him on the other end of the room, so I knew I wouldn’t be able to think if I allowed him to come further.

“You know, I never thought there would be a day when I would willingly want to be in the same room as you, but life’s unpredictable, and that’s the most infuriating thing about it all. I hate that it’s so uncertain” I suck in a breath, desperate to get a hold of myself.