~Selene's POV~
It is an ordinary Tuesday.
She knows this because she has been keeping track of ordinary Tuesdays the way she kept track of the clock on the night she waited for Caden to come home to a dinner she had spent hours preparing, not as an act of dread, but as an act of attention. Ordinary Tuesdays are what a life is made of. She has been making one for ten months and this is the evidence of it: an ordinary Tuesday in Silvermere that belongs entirely to her.
Lior wakes at five fifty-one, which is a small improvement on his previous record.
She lifts him before he can wake Asha, which requires moving quickly and quietly in a way she has become expert at over three months of mornings, and she carries him to the chair by the window and feeds him in the particular dark that is the
