CHAPTER 119

The Setup

Pov: Maddison

Something is wrong.

Something is wrong.

Something is terribly wrong.

That was the sound track playing in my head when I roused from my sleep that night and checked my phone.

It was almost eight o'clock.

It was almost eight o'clock and I was still asleep.

Any moment now, Ethan would knock on the door to inquire about why I wasn't down in the courtyard for the early morning jog.

I never sleep this late in the mornings...

Because, since the assault from William went down my mother always calls me up at seven in the mornings.

But today, I didn't see her phone call.

"Winston!" I cried alarmed. "Winston, wake up," I begged, already sliding out of bed.

He sat up, awake and alert immediately, searching my face frantically. "What happened, Maddie? Did anything happen to you?"

"Yes. I need you to drive me back to the city. I need to see my mother," I explained hurriedly as I slipped out of my nightdress and shimmied into a pair of jeans and tugged on a tank top.

Winston