~Nathan~
“Welcome back home, madam.”
My voice carried across the living room just as the front door clicked shut behind her, and I did not even bother to look up immediately because I already knew exactly who it was and exactly what time she would walk in, since the storm had eased sometime around dawn and the roads were no longer as dangerous as they were the night before, which meant there was only one place my daughter could be coming from at this hour.
Silence followed for half a second.
Then came the dramatic inhale.
“Daddy,” Yssa called out, stretching the word like she had just returned from war instead of whatever nonsense she got herself into, and when I finally lifted my gaze to look at her, she was already clutching her chest like she had suffered greatly, her expression ex
