The Taste of Ashes

AUDREY'S POV

I sat there, staring blankly at the dinner right in front of me. It had been twenty-four hours since I lost Maya, yet somehow, her memory clung to me like a second skin I couldn’t peel off. The food looked warm and inviting, but to me, it might as well have been ashes.

Hazel’s voice floated around me, sometimes faint, sometimes sharp enough to pierce through the heavy fog that wrapped