(Isolde's POV)
My hands closed around the wheelchair armrests.
I couldn't move.
Garrett's back grew smaller as he walked away, Victoria pressed into his side, his arm wrapped tight around her.
I just sat there and watched.
Chloe didn't howl. Didn't fight. She just curled up somewhere deep inside me and went quiet.
That silence hurt more than anything else could have.
My heart had been broken so many times it had stopped feeling like breaking. It just went numb. Like pressing on a bruise until you couldn't feel it anymore.
I stared at the space where they'd been long after they disappeared around the corner.
Natalie's voice came from beside me.
"Ms. Silvercrest?"
I blinked.
She stepped forward, her voice careful. "Do you know them? That man and woman just now?"
I turned back to
