Chapter 81

Vera

I wake up. For exactly one half second I do not know where I am.

The light feels wrong, it is gold and too soft falling across a ceiling that does not have the one the lights I am used to.

This ceiling is white and flawless.

The sound underneath everything is the ocean, which means the ocean is close which means I am in the villa above the ocean with Declan Thorne on the first morning of our