Chapter 142
- Damien POV
- “It’s my happy place. I could spend days there, just watching the gentle ripples on the water.”
- The second half of the journey had softened into something warmer. Aurélie spoke easily now, telling me about the lake house she’d stayed at as a child how it had never stopped feeling like home. She still went there often with Dominique and Delphine, retreating to it whenever the world became too loud.