Liora The car door shut with a solid click, and before I could take a proper breath, the engine purred to life. I turned my head toward the window and didn’t look back. The long drive stretched ahead, the mansion shrinking behind us until the ornate gates closed us off from that world entirely. Outside, the trees blurred together in streaks of green and gold, but all I could see were the thoughts piling up inside my head. I hadn’t taken in the scenery coming here, but after leaving, I couldn’t help but think his land was beautiful. Filled with dark pines, moss, and stones, but like how his family looked. Callum. I hadn’t expected him to help, let alone every really talk again. Not after everything. Not after the way I left things at the dance. And yet, there he’d been calm, patien

