Chapter 22

I swallowed my brain barely functioning. All I could hear was my heart beating in my ears, panic coursed through me so much so that I didn’t want to turn around for fear that my legs would give out. My vision felt blurry as I slowly pivoted on the spot. Jake said something but I couldn’t hear it, it sounded like he was talking under water to me.

Despite the light being on in the office now illuminating the whole floor all I could see was Jake’s thunderously angry face, everything else was dark, I blinked at him trying to focus on what he was saying but he was blurring. He took a step towards me his features softening slightly, at least I think they were, it was hard to tell as he was moving so much. I felt drunk nothing made sense my heart rate picked up it sounded so loud I was certain it was going to beat out of my chest.

Jake reached me gripping my shoulders as he looked into my eyes, I still didn’t hear a word of what he was saying, I realized I was going to black out. My legs gav