The atmosphere in her husband’s house had shifted into something almost suffocating. It wasn’t just the relentless rain that poured without warning, the wind that slithered through the old windows like an unwelcome guest. No, it was something far heavier. It was the silence. A silence so deep it seemed to hum in the air between Raellyn and Arnav. Husband and wife in name only, sharing the same house but not the same world, that even the weather seemed to echo it.
It wasn’t that Raellyn hadn’t tried. She had desperately so. She longed to cut through the heavy tension that now wrapped around them like a noose. To unbind the knot she had unknowingly tied the moment she let her curiosity drive her too far. But this time, all her efforts only seemed to tighten the rope.
She had been too curio
