The next two weeks felt like a thick fog swallowing Tessa’s life, filled with nausea, chills, and a silence neither of them dared to break. Nathan never mentioned that fight again, as if his words had slipped out in a moment of weakness and vanished with the night. Nothing was resolved. Only quiet lingered between them.

Tessa followed the doctor’s orders to rest, but it did nothing to stop the relentless waves of nausea. The smallest scent could send her rushing to the bathroom, her body ...