Chapter 76

• Lucas
• The car engine purred low as I drove aimlessly, thoughts spinning in my head like a storm impossible to contain. Ester's house always left me unsettled. It wasn't just the constant reminder of what she had done to my mother, but also the suffocating sense that I had never been important enough to anyone there.
• Dante had never apologized. He simply moved on, as if his choices hadn't left irreparable damage behind. And Ester... well, she was a chapter of her own. Every time she tried to force a false kindness, clinging to the title of godmother she once held in my life, all I could feel was disdain.