Selena POV
I stayed hidden in the dark tunnel long after my mother left. The silence pressed against me, heavy and thick, like the truth I could no longer run from. I had gone too far. Kieran knew. My mother knew. And now, the cracks in my plan were beginning to show.
But I wasn’t giving up. Not now. Not when I was this close.
I carefully folded the letters back into the cloth and tucked them into a new hiding spot behind a loose stone in the wall. If they tried to search this place, they wouldn’t find anything.
As I crawled out of the tunnel and into the quiet hallway, my legs shook under me. I hadn’t eaten properly in days. The fake illness, the long nights, the planning—it was all starting to weigh me down. But I wouldn’t stop. Ivy had ruined everything. She had turned the triplets
