CHAPTER 0275

LEONORA'S POV

I sat at the front counter of the café where I worked, lazily propping my chin on one hand as the other scrolled across my phone screen. The place was unusually quiet, no customers walking in, no orders ringing through the machine, just the faint hum of the air conditioner and the distant clatter from the kitchen. Normally, I would have welcomed the peace, but today it only meant my