Chapter 68
The morning air felt heavy with the weight of the past few days’ mistakes as Sarah readied herself for work. Every tick of the clock was a slow crawl toward the evening, toward Allie, and toward an apology that felt long overdue. She kept the details of her encounter with Selene tucked away in the quiet corners of her mind, a secret for now. Instead, she focused on the promise she’d made to Carter: the subject of her "turning" was buried until further notice. She finally saw the jagged edges of her own persistence—how she had clawed at a wound Carter had carried since childhood, dismissively brushing aside the trauma he had witnessed as a boy.
Carter, however, was blindsided by the shift. He watched her move through the kitchen with a newfound stillness, wondering how the vola
