Ella
I shut the bedroom door behind me and exhaled deeply, as though closing it could somehow keep the whole Darius family’s drama on the other side.
The day had been long.
My shoulders still carried the phantom weight of Irene’s glare, Jeff’s despair, Ruben’s restrained disappointment, and Kane’s unreadable silence.
And beneath all of it… the secret I alone carried.
I didn’t know how Matthew kept a straight face earlier.
I barely managed to maintain mine.
Watching Kane plead for Lexi’s help… watching Matthew pretend to “pass along the message” while literally texting me… it was surreal, almost comical, until I remembered what was at stake.
A woman’s life.
If only they knew that the healer they were chasing, the legend they were pinning their hopes on, the “myth” Milena that na
