First Sign

Esmere POV

That night, I was soundly sleeping in my room when suddenly I was awakened by a loud banging on the door.

I immediately stood up from the bed when I saw someone had forcefully opened it.

That presence. I couldn’t be wrong.

My heart almost jumped out of my chest when I saw Aamon emerge from the door and tell me, “I need to talk to you, Esmere.”

He told me that in such an angry voice.

I looked at him in confusion as I muttered, “What is it you want to talk about this late at night?”

Aamon gazed at me in an expression that I couldn’t even read. “I didn’t expect you to do something like that.”

I remained to look at him, not knowing what he was talking about.

And my whole body froze the moment Aamon raised his voice. “Why did you have to scare Elisa like that?”

It was the first time he raised his voice toward me, whi