Chapter 87

LYDIA’S POV

The weight of everything I had just learned did not settle immediately. It didn’t come all at once like a sudden storm.

Instead, it crept in slowly, tightening around my chest, pressing against my thoughts until I could barely separate one feeling from another.

I stood there, still clutching the document, my mind replaying Callum’s words over and over again.

It didn’t feel real.

Callum