Chapter 157

{Harper's POV}

I stared at the broken plate for a long time before the realization actually reached me.

She was gone.

My mother was gone.

The words arrived slow and then all at once, and my eyes stung so sharply it felt physical, tears flooding them before I'd even registered I was about to cry. My breath started shaking almost immediately after, short and uneven, like my lungs had forgotten the c