With every step that I took, I tried desperately to put more distance between the two of us, but it simply didn’t seem like that was going to happen. Firstly, to begin with, it seemed like he was as determined to keep up with me as I was to get away from him, resulting in absolutely no difference in the distance between us. I knew that I was just working myself up internally by doing this, but I felt like I needed to try, like simply accepting defeat wasn’t something that I should do in this situation.
All too soon, I found myself standing outside of my very own chambers, and if I had thought that my heartbeat had been beating abnormally during the time that I had been making my way here, then I had absolutely no idea what to describe it as now—but it was definitely much worse now. I wan
