CALIFF

Sighing, I looked down at the tray full of food. I was losing all the hopes I had. If there was one thing I kept holding on to and never let go, it was my marriage, and Shadow remembered me— us.

Given that she hated me and the anguish— I saw it in her eyes. And that meant something— she still felt something for me. Hope surged deep inside me again despite everything we went through.

“I’ll go first.” Zarah went ahead in the hallway.

I followed her and stayed behind the ...