Nicholas’s POV

I didn’t speak for a long time after that.

The moment he mentioned Vivian, it landed on my head heavily.

My brain refused to move past it. I was utterly speechless.

Harris kept driving.

So Vivian was alive…but… I had buried her. I had stood at that grave and felt something inside me die along with her.

I had carried that grief into every room for months before healing, even though I missed her sometimes.

Whenever I had looked at my girls and seen her in their ...