Hailey’s POV
The rain had slowed to a drizzle by the time Madison’s voice faded down the hall. The house fell into that heavy silence again, the kind that made every creak of the floorboard sound louder than it should. I tried to shake off the tension, to focus on anything else.
Roy had gone upstairs to take a call, leaving me in the kitchen with half-cooked bacon and a head full of confusion. Madison and Ryan? Since when? The way she’d looked at him, and the way he hadn’t looked away...something about it didn’t sit right.
I needed to clear my mind.
The basement. That’s where the extra supplies were, cleaning stuff, some boxes Roy wanted moved. Doing something physical might stop my thoughts from spiraling.
I took the keys off the hook and headed down the narrow stairs, the air growin
