A MADMAN'S OBSESSION
Rafael himself looked so at ease, so unguarded, so… at home.
Marcie couldn’t move. He couldn’t breathe properly. The silence felt suffocating, pressing in around her until her chest ached.
Then the faintest creak betrayed her, the door shifting slightly under her hand.
The woman’s head snapped up first, her gaze locking onto Marcie’s with instant sharpness. Wide-eyed, alert, almost defensive. A heartbeat later, Rafael stirred, blinking as though waking from a brief rest.
Confusion flickered across his face, but the moment his eyes landed on the doorway, on Marcie, on the box in her trembling hands, on the devastation written across her expression...the color drained from him completely.