Seven Days of Silence

Vivienne’s POV

It had been a week since the gala, though it felt longer; stretched, endless, like time itself was punishing me for a crime I had no idea about. Seven days since I’d watched my husband’s color drain while we were seated in a room with hundreds of people, his body trembling as though something inside him was breaking apart. Seven days since I’d watched him try to breathe and fail, si