It had been years since she’d been this close to him—close enough for him to ruffle her hair, just like he used to when she was a kid.

Nora and I barely got any sleep that night. The tension in the air was suffocating.

And it wasn’t just us. Tessa stayed in the mourning hall the entire night, brushing off Logan’s repeated attempts to get her to rest. As for Miles? He was nowhere to be found. At one point, Nora even joked that maybe he’d skipped town for ...