Chapter 187

{Harper's POV}

A lot of crazy things had happened to me over the past few months. Enough that I'd started, somewhere along the way, subconsciously bracing for the next one before it even arrived, the way you flinch at a loud noise after the third or fourth time it happens.

But I never once, in any version of my imagination, saw this coming.

I let my gaze drift slowly around the room, cataloguing t