Chapter 212

SIENNA

The silence pressed down like a weight I couldn’t bear.

The room wasn’t quiet—not really. Machines hummed, the heart monitor ticked in rhythm with my pulse, and somewhere beyond the door, I could hear the muffled chatter of nurses. But inside these walls, inside me, it was all stillness. Heavy, dreadful stillness.

My fingers curled against the bedsheet. "What happened to Clara?"

No one