Chapter 29: Hunted  

Felix POV:

Footsteps thundered past the mouth of the stairwell. Voices overlapped, shouting in two languages. A boot scuffed the concrete two feet away. He held me pressed against the wall, my heart hammering into his forearm, and didn't move.

They passed.

He didn't take his hand off my mouth right away. Ten seconds, maybe more, both of us breathing in the dark, and it was somewhere in that stretch of silence that the relief started to curdle into something else.

‘How did you find me.?’

It surf