Elena’s POV

We wait. Not because we have to, not because anyone forces us, but because, for once in our lives, we actually want to do something slowly. Properly. With intention. We wait until the children’s school holidays. It feels symbolic somehow. Like we are finally stepping into this next chapter, not in chaos, not in emergency mode, not running on adrenaline and half-sleep and coffee, but in calm. In sunlight. In a moment that belongs to us.

The twins are vibrating with excitement for ...