~~Nathan~~
The house was too quiet. Not the kind you get after a long day when everyone has gone to bed and the world finally settles.
This quiet felt wrong.
I closed my laptop earlier than usual tonight. I had finished everything faster than expected. The plan was simple. Spend some time with Yssa. Maybe talk about tomorrow and suggest we take the day off together. It had been a while since we had an actual father daughter day.
But she wasn’t in her room.
Not in the living room or in the kitchen. She’s basically nowhere to be found. And Kate seemed confused about her whereabout.
And now the storm had knocked out the power.
The flashlight in my hand flickered again, the weak beam shaking across the hallway walls.
Behind me, Kate was pressed so close to my back I could feel her bre
