Nina's POV
The strange thing about fear was that it could become so familiar that you stopped noticing how much space it occupied in your life.
For years, I had lived with it.
At first, it was the fear of losing Ethan.
Then it became the fear of Richard Wolfe.
After that came the fear of being found, the fear of questions I could not answer, the fear of truths I was not ready to face, and eventually the fear of hoping for anything at all.
Somewhere along the way, fear had become part of my routine.
I woke up with it.
I carried it through the day.
I went to sleep with it.
And because it had been there for so long, I had almost forgotten what life felt like without it.
That realization came to me on a quiet Saturday morning while I stood in the kitchen making pancakes for Leo.
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