Gasoline and a Match

KELLAN’S POV

A few days later, things felt deceptively calm.

Piper had started documenting everything the way Mum advised. Dates. Times. Screenshots saved in two places. I hated that she had to do that.

Hated that something that should have been simple, going to work, coming home, living, now required strategy. But she seemed steadier. And that mattered.

I was driving to practice when my phone bu