Chapter 35

• Tessa's POV:
• It’s been a month since everything with Summer went down, and yet, I still feel the echoes of that chaos. Like the scent of rain after a storm, faint, but always there. Things have been... peaceful lately. Strangely so. The kind of peace that makes you pause, like the castle itself is holding its breath.
• Today was one of those rare warm, golden days. I was curled up cross-legged in my room, basking in the comfort of laughter and idle chatter.