Chapter 140 One Step Away

• [KNOX]
• I leave the chamber before I can say something worse, and the door shuts behind me with a dull, final thud that echoes, grating on my nerves.
• The moment I’m alone, the pressure in my chest spikes, suffocating me, until I have to brace my hand against the cold stone wall just to stay upright. My lungs refuse to fill properly. I drag in a breath anyway, but it scrapes on the way down, shallow and useless, and I swallow the groan that threatens to follow.