The rain continuously poured outside Hudson the entire night. Soft at first.
Then heavier near midnight, droplets violently striking the apartment windows while distant thunder occasionally echoed across the sleeping city.
Inside the bedroom, silence settled gently after everything between them finally slowed down.
Jayda lay quietly against Faris’ chest beneath dim shadows while his arm remained wrapped securely around her waist.
Warm.
Familiar.
Dangerously comforting.
For a few brief moments earlier—
Everything truly disappeared.
The fear.
The investigation.
The deaths.
Damek.
All of it.
And somehow—
That scared Jayda too.
Because it reminded her how deeply she still loved Faris despite everything falling apart between them.
Faris gently brushed slow fingers through her h
