Tyler's Pov
The living room was quiet in that comfortable way that only happens when nothing is wrong.
Mom and Dad were on the couch watching something neither of them was fully paying attention to anymore. Dad had his arm around her shoulder and she was half asleep against him. I had grown up watching them like this. No fighting, no tension, just two people who actually liked each other sitting in the same room. I never took that for granted even when I did not say it out loud.
I was stretched out on the other end of the couch scrolling through my phone. Nothing interesting. Ruby's page was the usual chaos, posts about Cain every other hour like the boy had personally hung the moon for her. I smiled at that because Ruby in love was genuinely one of the funniest things I had ever witnes
