Fragile Miracle

When Sloane emerged, towel-dried hair brushing her shoulders, she found Killian seated on the edge of the bed, head bowed, staring vacantly at the bracelet encircling his wrist.

It was the very piece she had once chosen for him.

Something unnamed welled up inside Sloane's chest, an emotion so dense and sudden she could not sort it into words. Back when she chose that gift for his birthday, it neve