I sat at the breakfast nook, careful to not so much as bump the table, as Grady flitted around the kitchen. For the first time since her return, Cujo was sitting on the floor by my side, his heavy head resting atop my feet. She was talking about her visit with Ellie as she prepared an early breakfast.
“I left her plenty of aclumome for tea, but I’ll have to replenish it, of course.”
My mind was elsewhere, and I couldn’t bring myself back no matter how hard I tried.
“Soren only woke throughout the night to eat, and then he went straight back to sleep, every time.”
Every second that ticked by without an update from Reid, or without hearing that familiar whoosh! signaling Manon and Tessa’s return, or without some change, somewhere, felt like an eternity.
“Nina and I spent a lot of time
