*I'm sorry*

Valentina hadn’t planned to come back. Not after the way the last visit ended — or didn’t, because Cam never even came out of the room. She just stayed behind that wall, and she seemed out of reach, like she'd drawn an invisible line between them and dared her to cross it. But all night, that silence stayed in her head.

So here she was again, standing on the same damn doorstep, staring at the door like it might open itself and let her off the hook. She didn’t have a speech ...