In less than a few weeks, I would leave Silver Ridge and everything related to it.
Somehow, the realization hurt far more than I wanted to admit but it also brought relief but for the first time in months, I could finally see an ending.
I spent most of the night reviewing reports and files from Mooncrest and when dawn eventually arrived, exhaustion settled heavily into my bones.
Yet strangely, my mind felt clearer than it had in weeks.
The next morning the door burst open before I'd finished getting dressed.
"Vicky!" I heard the moment I looked up from the desk only to see Rowan stand there breathing hard.
His eyes swept across the room before finally landing on me and only then did the tension immediately leave his body.
"There you are.”
I blinked as the expression shifted awkwar
