It took every ounce of self-control that I possessed, that I had ever shown so much as a glimmer of portraying, to keep myself from slamming shut the doors when I left. I couldn’t believe it. I genuinely couldn’t believe what they had just told me, and considering the way that my father and Silen were looking at me, I had reason to think that maybe they had heard what had happened in there after all. Maybe these walls weren’t as thick as I had originally thought.
It looked like my father was going to say something, but I immediately started to shake my head, putting a stop to whatever it was that he had been planning to do. I hadn’t even realised that I had raised my hand to silence him until it was time for me to put it down, until the weight of keeping it up for so long forced me to ac
