Winter's POV
The uneasy truce between Damon and me was put to the test almost immediately. Days blurred together as we fell into a strained routine, both of us walking on eggshells, too afraid to press the wrong nerve.
The shadow of Sienna loomed larger with each passing moment, her presence like an invisible string pulling us closer to unraveling. While Damon and I had agreed to face her together, cracks in our alliance widened with every interaction, exposing wounds neither of us seemed ready to confront.
Kai, blissfully oblivious to the tension, was our only source of solace. Damon had started picking him up from school more often, stepping into fatherhood with a kind of clumsy determination that made my heart ache. I watched their bond deepen with an intensity I couldn’t quite put
