Chapter 16: They're Back

While not being able to sleep properly for the past two days, Mikki found that the only time of the day that she managed to get some rest was during the afternoon. She’d go for a jog during the morning and after lunch, she’d go back to her bedroom to try and get some sleep.

The hours passed as if they were being dragged, like the clock didn’t want to cooperate with her anxiety. From time to time, she’d ask Don or Ace if they had any news, but she always came back with an empty heart.

Why were they taking so long to send some news? Or maybe they had and Ace didn’t want to share it with her. He wouldn’t do that, she thought. But she guessed that if something worse had happened, she would’ve heard about it by now. Bad news travelled fast, at least that’s what she had learned.

Today, she followed that same routine, but she found herself more exhausted than on the previous day. So she slept during the whole afternoon, and no one came to disturb her. Or if they did, she didn’t see it.