Chapter 29: A Solo Ride
Reese
For a few seconds after reading Roman’s text, I didn’t know how I was supposed to react.
It wasn’t grief. That much was obvious almost immediately.
The words “Flora has passed away” sat on the screen of my phone, yet they didn’t punch the air out of my lungs the way news of a death usually did. There was no sudden wave of sorrow, no hollow ache spreading through my chest.
Not really.
The truth was simpler—and far heavier.
I was afraid for Savannah.
My gaze stayed fixed on the message while my thoughts raced ahead to the moment she would eventually find out. The moment the truth would land in her lap like a grenade with the pin already pulled.
Because this wasn’t just someone who had died. This was her mother.
I’d only met the woman once or twice,
