Chapter 302
Julie's POV
I stood rooted in my place for a succession of seconds that felt like a whole eternity, my eyes widened in genuine, paralyzing shock as I witnessed that towering, massive frame collapse utterly unconscious right before me onto the hard floor.
My racing, terrified breaths produced an audible rasp in the stagnant living room, and my heartbeat hammered with a feral, maddening violence inside my chest, as though desperate to break free from this suffocating psychic siege. I moved with trembling, slow, and hesitant strides toward the adjacent kitchen wall, extending my cold palm to snap the light switch, illuminating the space with a harsh, high glare.
The absolute darkness that had cloaked the corners of the perimeter vanished instantly, and I saw him lying with his full weight flat on his stomach over the wooden floorboards, wearing a thick black backpack heavily stuffed with items an object he apparently hadn't found the time to discard.
