Lily's POV
By the time morning came, I was already exhausted from thinking too much. Dante and I had stayed up later than we should’ve, finalizing the ridiculous one-year marriage plan that somehow made sense and didn’t make sense at the exact same time. We weren’t fighting, and neither of us had said anything wrong, but the entire conversation had left a strange heaviness in the air.
So when he quietly told me, “We’ll skip tonight’s treatment. You need time to breathe,” I didn’t argue. I just nodded, grateful and overwhelmed all at once.
I slept, but it wasn’t restful. The next morning, I got out of bed and reminded myself that it was a Monday. Even though the weekend had been a crazy one filled with unexpected twists, it had come to an end and I had to be at work now.
I quickly took
