Three months later.
Normal had a different meaning now.
Life had settled into something steady not perfect, but steady.
Sean had not resurfaced.
No calls. No sightings. No shadows creeping into her days.
Time had moved anyway.
And so had she.
She was back at work. Back to routines that once felt impossible to reclaim. Back to school runs and grocery lists and quiet nights that no longer felt suffocating.
And Flavian…
Flavian had rebuilt his world too.
He had won his case decisively, the verdict closing a chapter that had haunted him for years. But he hadn’t stopped there.
He built something new from the ashes.
The Skills Acquisition Center.
Tonight was its official launch.
And somehow, she was standing at the center of it all not as the architect, but as the person who knew t
