DESDEMONA

I told no one what I had seen.

The memory of Selene's face remained trapped inside my mind, following me everywhere I went.

I kept remembering the way she had looked at me when I called her name, the shock in her eyes, the fear that had crossed her face before she disappeared through the hidden passage.

She had known who I was, and that frightened me more than anything else. I had never met her before that night, yet she had looked at me as though she had been expecting me.

For the next two days, I pretended nothing had happened. I worked when Laura ordered me to...