SILVER HOLLOW
JASON
I was already halfway gone before I even realized I had fallen asleep.
My mind had been heavy when I came back from the office.
Heavy with unanswered questions.
Heavy with the kind of silence that usually meant something was building just out of sight.
I don’t remember when exactly my eyes closed.
Only that everything went dark at some point.
And then...
My phone rang.
I didn’t open my eyes at first.
I just reached for it blindly, irritation already building in my chest.
The sound cut off before I could even pick it up.
Silence returned.
I exhaled slowly and turned slightly on the bed, expecting that to be the end of it.
It wasn’t.
Less than three minutes later, a knock came at the door.
Hard.
Sage shifted beside me immediately.
“What is that?” she mu
