Calla:
After the Beach Club… Everything got… Quiet. Too quiet. Like the whole city had taken one long breath and forgotten how to let it out. Dad buried himself in meetings. Reve stopped showing up unannounced. He still texted, still called, still checked where I was. But it wasn't the constant hovering from before. It almost worried me more. Reve wasn't the kind of man who backed off. He regrouped. Like a hurricane sitting just offshore, You couldn't see the destruction yet… But you could feel the pressure changing. Even the garage felt different. Everyone was waiting for something. No one knew what. Only that it was coming.
I needed one night where I wasn't thinking about Camden. Or my dad. Or Reve. Or encrypted laptops. Or murder. Just… One night. Thankfully, the entire city seemed to
