Chapter 189

Elodie’s POV

Thursday night, the house was quiet earlier than usual.

Mom had a prenatal check-up that ran late, and Garrick went with her. The snow had stopped falling, leaving the world outside muffled and sparkling under streetlights.

I was curled on my bed with my sketchbook, trying to finalize the last piece for the showcase—a lone silver wolf standing beneath a fractured moon—when my phon