Chapter 29 Preparations

• Kenneth’s POV
• With only a day left until my birthday, I’d been so swamped with responsibilities that I barely had time to breathe—let alone spend time with Lucy. And I felt terrible about it. She kept insisting she understood, but something in her demeanor had shifted after she woke up from the coma. It was subtle at first, but it grew more obvious with each passing day.
• It was like… she preferred being away from me.