CHAPTER 45

OVERCOMING HIS WANTS

Athina could not sleep, she felt restless, everything wasn't okay, to sleep was a problem. She could not count how many cups of coffee she had taken just to make her fall asleep, but... whenever she tried closing her eyes, her nightmares kept clawing at her, like though there was an invisible nail.

Colton heard the door of her room creak open, he knew she was out again to begin roaming around the house dejectedly. He didn't like the way she had been acting since he brought her back from the Office. She had refused to eat and he had seen how red and puffy had eye had became since she came back.

He could not even stop her from her throat retching sobs, because in between, she would push him off and yell at him for intruding. He didn't know what to do, even when he had gone to check on her in her bedroom, he had noticed that she locked the door from inside.

He could not count how many times he had knocke