Chapter 64 Hell Breaking Loose

• Hailey
• Carter took me to a lake for rowboating—and God, I wished I didn’t love it as much as I did. The calm water, the soft chorus of birds, the kind of conversation that made the world blur away.
• I didn’t know what we had, Carter and I. But I knew this: he felt like a beginning. Maybe not of love—but of something rare. A connection I hadn’t shared with anyone before. A friend. Maybe more. Maybe not.