JANICE'S POV I finish Chloe's letter just after midnight and by the last page I'm crying so hard that the words keep blurring together, forcing me to wipe my eyes again and again before I can continue reading. The letter isn't what I expected. It isn't instructions, demands or another impossible promise left behind for me to carry, it's simply Chloe speaking to me one last time, sounding so much like herself that for a moment I can almost pretend she's still here. She writes about us first. About growing up together, about shared birthdays and childhood secrets, about finishing each other's sentences and knowing what the other was thinking without needing words, and every memory cuts a little deeper because I can hear her voice behind every line. Then she writes about Eden. She writ

