Dani:
As I walked out of Silas's house, side by side with Ryan, I could feel the weight of everything we had just talked about still hanging in the air. The night had shifted something in me and changed how I saw things, but the magnitude of it all hadn't settled yet. I kept replaying everything in my head—the land, the contract, Will—and it all felt like a storm just waiting to hit.
I had spent years trying to hold on to my family's land and protect a history that felt like it was slipping through my fingers with every passing day. But Will didn't just want to take the property; he wanted to erase everything it represented. And that realization hit me like a slap to the face, strong enough that my knees buckled and threatened to drop me to the ground.
"Would you have dinner with me ton
