Chapter 151

• The city felt different the moment they landed.
• Gemma stared out the car window as they pulled away from the airport, the glass cool against her cheek. The skyline stretched out in the distance, familiar and gray. It wasn’t the view that made her chest feel tight—it was the weight of everything they left behind at that hotel. The space they shared. The heat they unleashed.
• Now, back in their world, the space between them in the back seat of the car felt cavernous.