Chapter 66
Sarah watched, her chest aching, as the raw grief of Dorian’s family filled the hallway. Their cries over Lavender’s untimely death felt like physical blows. The air grew colder as a team of nurses emerged, wheeling Allie out on a gurney. She looked terrifyingly fragile—her skin a ghostly pallor, her breathing tethered to the rhythmic hiss of an oxygen machine. Seeing Allie so vulnerable, suspended in a state of unknowing, Sarah felt the hot sting of tears finally blur her vision.
“I can’t be here,” Sarah whispered, her voice trembling. “I shouldn’t be seeing this.”
“But you are here,” Selene countered, her voice steady and clinical. “You are going to witness the depth of the shadow Allie walked through. You’ll see the moment she learns her child is gone, and the suffocating
