Leah stumbled blindly down the hallway, her vision blurred with tears. Her chest heaved with uneven breaths, each one scraping her lungs as if the very air were too sharp to breathe.
She pressed a trembling hand to the wall, dragging herself forward. She only wanted distance from Nathan’s voice, from his denials, from the unbearable weight of the truth she thought she had uncovered.
Her footsteps echoed in the dim corridor, the mansion unnervingly quiet as though it, too, mourned Mira’s death. But the silence did not comfort her. It suffocated…
The chandeliers above flickered, their light stretching shadows across the floor, reminding her of that morning when she had stepped outside and found Mira’s body stiff and lifeless in the cold.
The image would not leave her, Mira’s pale skin, h
