All Chapters of Signed In Silence : Chapter 111 - Chapter 112

Wren I sat staring at the green glow of my dad's terminal window, my spine rigid, my hands resting lifeless on the worn brass casing of the laptop. The quiet inside my head was absolute dead, frozen expanse where pain had turned to stone. When the wooden door of the hotel room gave a sharp, metallic click, I didn't reach for the blue folder. Leander bypassed the lock with the quiet, effortless efficiency of a man who owned the world and everything in it. He stepped over the threshold, looked hollowed out. His suit was rumpled, his shirt collar unbuttoned, his jaw covered in a thick, dark shadow of stubble. The storm in his eyes had burned down to pure, agonizing ash. He stopped three feet inside the small room, his gaze taking in the peeling wallpaper, the stained carpet, and finally settling on me... sitting in the dark, small and cold beneath the humming fluorescent bulb. "Wren," he said. His voice was barely a sound, a rough, scraped whisper that sounded like dry leaves dra