Chapter 118

• Aurora POV
• The drive back home is silent, the kind of quiet that presses in from all sides, thick with everything we can’t say. Emmi is in the back seat, her little legs swinging, oblivious to the storm brewing between the adults. Lucas keeps his eyes on the road, his jaw tight, and I stare out the window, my mind racing. Killian is coming to our home. After three years of nothing, he’s here, and I don’t know what he wants or how to stop him.
• Lucas reaches across the console, his hand finding mine and squeezing gently. It’s a small gesture, but it grounds me, a silent promise that we’ll face this together. I squeeze back, clinging to the reassurance. We’ll talk to Killian, make him see there’s no place for him in our lives, and then he’ll leave. That’s the plan. It has to be.