Chapter 15 - Tell Me The Truth

Tessa’s POV

I sat on the edge of the bed, still wrapping my head around what had happened moments ago. My fingers dug into the sheets as I recalled the burning anger in Roman’s eyes. I had never seen him so mad before.

But there was something else — that voice…

I’d heard it right before Roman’s mother took me upstairs.

It struck something deep in me—too familiar and haunting. Like a voice I’d buried but came back to haunt me.

And there was Roman, he hadn’t said a word. Just told his mother to take me away. He turned his back while I asked him to tell me what was going on.

And that silence?

It told me everything.

Someone was downstairs Roman didn’t want me to see. Or hear.

And now my gut twisted with dread.

I stood up. I couldn’t sit here like a puppet.

Not anymore. My feet moved lightly on the ground.

The yelling had vanished and the only sounds I could hear were subtle mumbles of Roman and his mother.

I reached the hallway that led to the stairs and then I heard it.

“Are you m