Elena's POV

By Saturday afternoon, life had somehow settled back into something almost… normal.

Almost.

After everything that had happened Thursday night, the last two days had passed surprisingly quietly.

Caleb had looked me in the eye and quietly promised he was going to ask me properly this time.

Since then, neither of us had brought it up again. Somehow… life had simply kept moving.

Which was probably why Adrian insisted we all come over for lunch.

“Caleb, I swear if you let ...