Chapter 246

Harper

We didn’t talk after that.

Not one word.

Just the two of us trapped in the same narrow space, breathing the same tense air, pretending not to look at each other while every emotion we didn’t say hovered between us like smoke.

I turned toward the window, forcing my eyes closed, telling myself I wasn’t going to sleep.

Couldn’t sleep.

But exhaustion crept in anyway—heavy, stubborn, unforgiving