The light didn’t come on.
A small fuse popped somewhere in the house. The bulb must have been faulty. Ryan cursed under his breath in the sudden darkness. “Damn it. Not now.”
He stood there, phone in hand, my ringtone still going. I held my breath tighter, body trembling against Marcus in the corner. One wrong move and it was over. Ryan took another step closer to the couch, feeling around. What would happen next? I didn’t know. But my heart wouldn’t stop racing.
The torch light from his phone moved slowly across the room. It passed over the couch cushions where we had been just minutes ago. I could see the edge of my nightdress lying there like a flag. My heart beat so hard it hurt. Marcus’s arm stayed tight around my waist. One beam of light in the wrong direction and Ryan would see u
