Elena's POV

Friday evening sunlight spilled softly through my apartment windows, the TV playing low in the background while I lay stretched across the couch in one of my oversized sweaters.

I left work early for once. No meetings. No calls. No pretending I wasn’t exhausted.

The apartment was too quiet.

Three days had passed since the date with Drew, and somehow that only made everything worse.

Because the entire time, all I could think about was Caleb.

I stared blankly at the TV without ...