Chapter 14
- The sun came early, slicing through the tree line in thick, golden beams that cut across the cabin’s floor like spotlights. Ellis blinked into it, already awake, already tired.
- She hadn't slept much.
- Not because the bed was uncomfortable or the wind too loud. No, it was the echo. Of her own words. Of his silence. Of the almost between them that felt like a scream swallowed too late.