The Weight of Silence

AUDREY'S POV

Today felt like a crushing, endless failure. The whole day had slipped through our fingers and with it any hope of finding Cora. Nolan was nowhere to be found. Cora was nowhere. I lay flat across the backseat of the car as if it were my bed, the leather cool beneath my cheek. The tears I had been holding so tightly all day began to leak out anyway, slow and relentless. There was nothi