Unspoken Contract

Vivienne’s POV

I hadn’t expected having Valentin home for a week to be quite so…eventful.

I’d assumed it would be the usual kind of quiet: him recovering in solitude behind closed doors, me going about my day in other corners of the house, the occasional nod or awkward eye contact if our paths crossed in the hallway. We were good at that, at living parallel lives under one roof, orbiting each othe