Alexander's POV

Today is Sunday and Sunday mornings used to be sacred.

Not for worship, necessarily. But for the rest.

For that sacred hush before the world fully woke up. The kind of peace that tasted like black coffee and the low hum of a jazz playlist.

But this morning was different.

I stood at the edge of the community culinary garden—a project Montego had sponsored as part of the Legacy Initiative—watching a group of interns from our youth program set up folding tables and haul ...