The note stayed folded in my pocket the entire day and I hated that I kept thinking about it. Every time my mind drifted back to those words it felt like Raze had already won something.
‘You’re slower than you think’
The message crawled around inside my head like poison.
By afternoon the entire property had shifted again while patrols doubled around the gates and nobody walked anyway along anymore. Every person at the clubhouse looked tired enough to snap at the wrong sentence.
I understood the feel and I hadn’t slept. Not really.
Every sound kept dragging my attention sideways and every shadow outside the windows felt wrong now and exhaustion sat sharp behind my eyes while irritation burned through everything else.
Drake noticed immediately which didn’t surprise me.
“You look
