Dawn's POV
A frustrated groan left me as I slumped down onto the bed behind me. I could feel the agitation and frustration filing up inside of me, something like both anger and relief flooding me the moment I realized I wasn't going to find anything incriminating in my aunt's room.
A momentary lapse of shame ran through me, too, when I realized what I had done. I had gone through and ransacked her entire room, invading her privacy and trust, just because of a suspicion. There was no reason for my aunt to be hiding anything from me, and no reason for me to have not trusted her based on just a few small things I assumed in the past few days about her. She had raised me and protected me for so long, so why did I doubt her all of a sudden?
I had no reason to, right? As the shame began to ov
