Riley sat on the bed, her legs curled beneath her as she scrolled through her phone aimlessly. But no matter how much she tried to distract herself, her mind kept drifting back to Alistair and his strange behavior lately. He was acting so weird—distracted, secretive, and oddly jumpy whenever she entered a room. It wasn't like him at all.
She sighed, shaking her head. "No," she muttered to herself. "I am not going to obsess over this."
Instead of letting her mind wander into the endless cycle of what-ifs, she decided to redirect her focus onto something far more important—Sam. She had been looking into the adoption process for weeks now, but with everything going on, she hadn't given it her full attention. Now was the perfect time to do so.
Riley grabbed her laptop and opened a new tab,
