CHAPTER 0236

AUDREY'S POV

The soft chime of my phone alarm filled the bedroom, pulling me from a warm, lingering dream. For once, the heaviness that usually sat on my chest in the mornings wasn’t there. Instead, a quiet smile tugged at my lips as I remembered last night—Natalie’s laughter over wine, the two of us on the balcony, the city lights winking below like a thousand secrets. It had been exactly the sor