Chapter 19 Trapped Like This?

• (Arabelle)
• I watched him leave, the door shutting behind him with a sharp click that reverberated through the room. The sound startled me, even though I had sensed his anger simmering beneath the surface from the moment I opened my eyes. His eyes had been so intense, as though they were trying to pierce through me, trying to dig out something that I couldn't give. Something I didn't even understand myself.
• Lucian, he had said his name was. I could feel the weight of it still lingering in the room, pressing down on me as if it were a palpable thing. But now that he was gone, I could breathe again.