Ethan
I sat alone in my room, the weight of my thoughts crushing me. Fiona. No matter how much time had passed or how often I tried to distract myself, my mind always returned to her.
Even now, as she and Jason tirelessly worked in the hospital to find a cure for the plague, she remained the center of my world.
She had been gone for years, but not a single day had passed without her thoughts lingering in my mind, her absence carving a void in my chest.
And now, she was back. No longer the shy, soft-spoken girl I had known, she had grown into a confident, radiant woman.
Seeing her again had shaken me. But what gnawed at me most was the way Jason stayed close to her—the way she smiled and laughed with him.
From what I had observed, they weren’t together, at least not yet. But their sha
