NINA Jeremiah was bristling with untamed rage, and if it were the beginning of when I had first come here, I wouldn’t have recognized the other emotion that peeked through his fury. But I could see it now, because beneath that fury was an emotion that made my stomach clench. It was the same one I was feeling. It was fear. It flickered, raw and unhidden, in his dark grey eyes as he marched out of the house. I chased after him, heart hammering, my breath choppy in the night air. The danger I had always lived in had disappeared since I came to live here. In this place, the only danger I feared was my husband, but even now that wasn’t there much, leaving only want and unresolved feelings and my hunger for memories that would allow me to understand this enigma of a man. And the only other time I had felt something close to that fear in which I used to live was when someone has shot at me. But now something similar to terror was creeping around my heart, pressing into my skin like i
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