Chapter 45 Dilemma

• I sat in the quiet of my room that evening, staring at the faded wallpaper and the soft glow of the bedside lamp.
• Every moment I spent in this house, the nights filled with whispered confessions and tender embraces with Holvaster, the painful revelations his past with Linda, felt like a double-edged sword.
• I was torn between the magnetic pull of the answers I so desperately needed and the overwhelming urge for self-preservation.