Nirvana stared at the ceiling for a long moment, the silence around her pressing in like a weight she couldn’t shake off. Her fingers clenched the sheets. The same suffocating silence she had been drowning in since the hospital. Her father was gone, and she was trapped…again.

She sat up slowly, her mind replaying the same thought over and over.

I have to contact Uncle.

He was the only family left. The only one who might care… if he even did.

Sliding out of bed, she pulled on the ...