Chapter 136

• KELILAH’S POV
• The weight of my words hung in the air, an unspoken truth between Caleb and me. "I'm sorry." The apology was all I had, yet it felt so insufficient, like a tiny spark in a vast, endless darkness.
• I had apologized so many times in my life for all the mistakes I made, but nothing felt more futile than this. Nothing could change the irreversible past, especially when it came to my unborn child—the life I had sacrificed in the name of love.