A Week of Distance

Celia's POV

The wooden wheels of the carriage ground to a halt outside the cabin. Declan dropped me off without another word, his silence heavy and dismissive. I barely noticed his departure. The name he had just spoken echoed through my skull, loud and terrifying. *Thorne.* My boots felt like lead as I dragged myself up the porch steps. Kaelen was nowhere in sight.

The moment I pushed the fron