Chapter 26

AIDEN

“Ellie…”

I could tell the sound of my mother's voice when I heard it. But then, I wondered why in the world she wanted to see Ellie so badly at that point. Why couldn't it wait?

“Aiden…” Ellie called out my name in a whisper, which had me putting my index over her lips.

There was no way I could let my mother know that I was in there. It would be simply disastrous if she found me out.

“What are we going to do?” Ellie asked in an even less audible whisper. “She's going to find us out in no time.”

I hopped out of bed and scurried for my clothes. The speed with which I hopped into them had me feeling quite surprised as I had never felt such urgency for anything like I was right there.

“Put on your damn clothes…” I mouthed voicelessly to her as she was still on the bed looking all confused and troubled. Was she trying to get us caught on purpose?

I was dressed up and ready to leave, but I just needed a place to hide. I had slipped into my clothes with no underwear and it was quite