CHAPTER FIFTEEN- NYX
The house moved on frighteningly fast.
Three days after the miscarriage, breakfast was served at the usual hour, meetings resumed, and the staff walked the halls normally again. Even the music downstairs returned softly in the evenings like nothing catastrophic had happened inside the walls of the estate.
At first, I kept waiting for the grief to feel shared, for someone to stop me in the hallway and ask if I was surviving it, but no one did. The tragedy settled over the house briefly, then dissolved quietly into routine.
I don’t even know what I was expecting, why I still had hope.
Kael returned to work almost immediately.
He left early every morning and came home later than usual, exhaustion and irritation permanently shadowing his expression. Business losses
