**CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Puffy Eyes and Dinner**~Zella's Point of View~I didn't stop to think.The moment I heard Brynn's voice outside the door, I was already off the counter, across the kitchen, down the hall, and into my room, the door closing behind me, before I'd even finished deciding to move. I leaned against it in the darkness, pressed both hands to my chest, and listened to my own heartbeat doing something completely irrational.She wasn't dressed to receive company.I grabbed the first thing I found, a loose nightgown hanging from the back of the chair, put it on and sat on the edge of the bed trying to make my face do something normal.From the living room, I could hear Brynn's voice, bright and happy as it was when things were going well with Theo, asking where I was. Evander said I was in my room. A pause. Then Brynn's voice again, different now, the joy fading into something worried."Why is she alone in her room? Dad, why did you leave her alone like that?"A longer pause.
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