Chapter 25

• Helena’s POV
• ​The words hang in the sterile air of the sunroom, heavy and sharp. I broke up with Jordan. The wedding is completely off.
• ​For a moment, the steady, rhythmic beep of my heart monitor feels like the only sound in the world. My mind travels back through the decades, shifting through the layers of dust and memory to a time when the world was much simpler. I had once been closer than sisters with June Harrisford, Vance’s late wife. When we were young, vibrant, and full of romantic notions about the world, the two of us had giddily arranged a marriage between our children, whispering promises of binding our families together forever.