Chapter 591

The air became oppressive. It was charged as though the air, too, was holding its breath in nervousness. Only the birds’ chirping outside, as they perched beside the windowpane, stopped the room from being engulfed in total silence.

Still, as loud as their chirps was Mimi’s own pounding heart. She stared into Elias, gulping, nervous despite herself. This was the first time she became lucid of how mortified she could be of an answer. The dread was in the possibility of hearing the one she least