Chapter 247: Little Thread Of Hope
When they both arrived at the house, Cassian didn’t think of anything else but Maddie. He didn’t have time to blame himself either, the image of how he had found her almost motionless on the cold floor, as if all life had been drained from her kept displaying before his eyes, and his mood dampened, his face pale as a ghost if he still had a hard time believing it.
He met Orson and Inna who stood at the front of the house, waiting. Inna kept pacing back and forth, her expression troubled, but when she looked up with Orson to see Elian and Cassian returning, their worried expression was instantly replaced with relief. Inna, who saw her brother returning safe and sound with Elian, couldn’t stop herself from hugging her brother tight, her racing heart finally calmed knowing he had returned.
There was a slight sniffling he heard from her, and he knew she must have cried.
"Thank God you’re safe." She said before pulling back to meet her brother’s gaze. "Are you.... Okay?"
"Maddie." He uttered her name, and Orson equally approached him, placing a hand to his shoulder. "She’ll be fine." He assured his best friend who clearly didn’t look fine with himself. "Osvaldo and Monica have been with her, and he says she’ll recover soon if she gets enough rest."
Cassian, who didn’t even know he had been holding his breath the entire time, suddenly released it with his shoulders relaxing. He looked at the house and went inside, not waiting for the others to speak, and Elian motioned for the two of them to let him go.
"He’ll need the space."
"What about you? Are you alright?" Inna asked as she came to stand only a feet away from him, her worried eyes raking him from head to toe, and Elian nodded, assuring her he was fine.
"What exactly happened there?" Orson, who couldn’t deal with the suspense decided to ask, "Cassian doesn’t look like his usual self, and Osvaldo didn’t give us any details on what happened to Madeline."