Chapter 29. Either Damnation or Salvation

ROSETTE

I didn’t know why I flinched. I didn’t understand why I felt that little fear in my gut. I wasn’t going to take what I read seriously. I kept telling myself over and over again, that this was real life and those things didn’t exist.

So I relaxed, and the men just looked at me with unreadable looks in their eyes.

“Where’s Alex?” I asked, not because I cared, but I just had to say something to fill the tense silence.

“Still not back,” Kross answered, his voice cool.

As I looked at him, I remembered that moment we shared this morning. I didn’t really know what it was, but it looked like Kross was fighting with himself. And as I look at him right now, I don’t see his wall of ice anywhere. Something must have changed in him.

Kade just stayed silent, watching me but after a while, he looked away.

“I’ll be in my room,” I said as I turned, going up the stairs.

That was awkward. I felt like their little sister whom they had to check up