OMNISCIENT
Eleven years.
He has seen her for eleven years when no one else did.
Another contraction tears through her and she screams. When it passes, she’s left shaking.
"You're doing well," Durrell says quietly.
She almost laughs. Her body is doing the work. Her body is bringing proof into the world that she once loved Maxwell with everything she had.
But somewhere between the pain and exhaustion, something shifts.
It shifts for Durrell.
He was there when her father was shot. At the cemetery when her family abandoned her. At the lawyer's office when her mother erased her, and he never once asked her for anything.
And without her noticing, her heart has started making space for him.
Not because he is safe, but because he sees her. The real her.
The next contraction comes, and s
