Chapter 26
The drive to campus should have felt exciting.
For most people, their first day registering for college was a milestone. Something worth celebrating. Parents took pictures. Friends sent congratulatory messages. There were smiles, coffee runs, and nervous excitement about the future.
Sage sat in the passenger seat of Declan Cahallan's truck and felt absolutely nothing.
Well, that wasn't entirely true.
She felt tired and exhausted.
The Tennessee morning rolled past outside the window. The roads were busy with students heading toward campus. Coffee shops had lines stretching out the doors. Young people walked the sidewalks with backpacks slung over their shoulders, laughing about classes they hadn't even attended yet.
Everything looked painfully normal.
Something Sage had n
