Chapter 513

It had once been their home.

Since the day he'd walked away from Clara's doorway, Declan had moved back to Emerald Garden. The room still carried traces of her scent, faint but enough to give him a fragile sense of peace. Or maybe it was just his way of pretending she wasn't truly gone.

The phone he'd tossed aside began to buzz. He picked it up and glanced at the screen. A message from an unknown