Chapter 100

ELLIE

There were no words to explain what I felt as my eyelids cracked open for me to see the ceiling of my room. I had been lying the same way I had been when I had passed out after the familiar stranger had saved me from the dealer.

I had been expecting to have been left for dead out there in the woods under the tree with no one to help me out. But there I was, under the roof where I lived.

Just when I was about to try sitting up in bed, the door went open with Aiden coming through it. He had a tray in his hand which he was nearly dropping from the shock of seeing me awake. It almost felt like he hadn't been expecting to see me awake by that time.

I glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table not too far away from me. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like he had everything to do with how I had ended up there.

“Ellie…” he quickly got in and shut the door behind him like he didn't want anyone to know that I was in there. He hurried to the table where he kept the