Chapter 41
The click of Sage’s bedroom door still echoed in Jace’s mind long after he walked away.
“I came back despite you.” Those words carved deeper than any blade. He scrubbed a hand down his face, jaw tight, and headed downstairs. The mansion felt heavier than usual, weighed down by ghosts neither of them could outrun.
The following morning, the boys were finishing a long shift at Mason’s clinic.
Exhaustion clung to them like road dust as they stepped out into the bright afternoon sun. Mason rolled his shoulders, trying to ease the knot from hours of patients. Jace checked his phone, while Cole and Rhett traded tired banter about grabbing food before heading back to the clubhouse.
Meanwhile, Sage had just wrapped up her last class. The whispers still followed her across campus,
