Chapter 161

**Ronan**

The night settles slowly. Music fades to hums and laughter, the kind that clings to the air long after the last song’s been played. The fairy lights outside the barn flicker like tired stars, and the field smells like summer, grass, smoke, pie, and rain that hasn’t fallen yet. Half the kids have gone to bed, while the other half are asleep where they sit. Roxanne is stretched across a ha