Chapter 15 The Return
- Chapter 15, The Return
- A week passed in a fragile kind of peace.
- The lake house was tucked in the woods like a secret, nestled against the still surface of the water. Pine trees swayed gently in the warm breeze of late summer. It was the kind of place that felt like a dream—you could forget the world existed. Forget the cameras and headlines, the betrayals and blood.