Chapter 455

Daphne

I told myself I was not going back. I said it out loud in the car on the way home the first time, then again the second time. By the third afternoon, the words had stopped meaning anything. The road past Elias's house was still the longer route. I took it anyway.

The light was different this time. It was later, and the sky had already started to fade at the edges. Harper's car was parked in