Chapter 128

Declan

The room is still dark when I wake up. It is not the dark of the middle of the night but a softer kind of dark.

I am awake before my alarm goes off. What is different this morning is that I do not reach for my phone as soon as I wake up. Instead I reach for Vera.

She is lying on her side facing away from me which is how she always ends up by morning. Her hair is loose across the pillow. One