Chapter 55 The Way Back

• Mia had forgotten how loud silence could be.
• For days, she had lived inside her tiny Queens apartment, listening to the upstairs neighbor drag furniture across the floor, the buses groan along the wet streets, and the pipes rattle whenever someone turned on a tap. Those ordinary sounds had once been comforting. Now they only reminded her that she had returned to a life that no longer felt like hers.
• Adrian was still standing in the middle of her living room.