Mia's POV
My exams were starting today and I was anxious.
I had been awake long before the sun.
Sleep had come in pieces—restless and shallow, broken by too many thoughts I could not silence. Everytime I had closed my eyes, my mind found its way back to the prison, to the empty answer, to the man who had somehow disappeared before I could reach him and return what he gave me.
Even now, sitting at the edge of my bed with my school uniform neatly laid beside me, it felt like that unfinished question was sitting with me in my room.
I rubbed my hands over my face and let out a slow breath.
Today was supposed to be simple.
Go to school, write my exam and come back.
A normal day, something I had been preparing for. Something that belonged to the life I was meant to have. And not hidden m
