Rose’s POV

The night hung motionless, a shroud of silence in my living room, weighed down by an unspoken, unresolved tension. I snuggled on the sofa, a blanket wrapped tightly around me as though it would ward off the storm of emotions raging in my mind. My mind was a knot of questions, of uncertainty, of doubts.

I hadn't realized I'd been there for so long, staring blankly in this dark room, when I was shocked awake by the opening of the front door. My heart jumped a little before it ...