Chapter 98.
Clara’s POV.
It had been two weeks since everything happened… two weeks since fear wrapped its hands around my throat and tried to steal my breath… two weeks since Logan and Leo had been ripped out of my life for good.
Two weeks since Maxwell saved me.
Healing did not come all at once. It came quietly… in moments. In sleep that no longer startled me awake. In mornings where my chest no longer felt tight. In laughter that no longer felt forced. And most of all… in the way Maxwell never left my side, not even for a second, even when he pretended he had.
My jewelry store was finally coming to life.
The designs I had carried in my head for years were now sketched, approved, refined. The branding was bold and elegant. The launch campaign was already creating noise in the indu
