EDEN'S POV
The black SUV changes everything.
The moment Janice shows me the photographs from the aquarium, every instinct I've spent years trusting starts screaming that someone isn't just watching us anymore.
They're studying us.
Jack doesn't need to know that.
He deserves one more ordinary morning.
So when he wanders into the kitchen wearing dinosaur slippers and rubbing sleep from his eyes, I smile like nothing happened.
"Morning."
He yawns.
"Why do adults always wake up before the sun?"
"Because bills exist."
He frowns.
"I've decided never to have bills."
Janice looks up from the frying pan.
"I support this dream."
"You can't."
"Why not?"
"Because you're an adult."
She sighs dramatically.
"You caught me."
Breakfast is loud, messy and completely normal as Jack insis
