Chapter 102
- SELENE
- A soft knock brushed the door. Fingers pulled the blanket tighter, not out of fear, but instinct. Trying to feel who stood outside before answering never worked, yet the habit stayed. Relief didn’t come. The scent reached me instead. Flowers and vanilla. Warm. Familiar. Wrong for how I felt. The chest dropped.
- “Come in,” came out anyway, quiet and heavy with guilt.