Chapter 4

Adrian's eyes stayed nailed to that line.

For the first few seconds, his mind simply stopped working.

There was no collapse. No shouting. Only a physical, helpless loss of speech.

His first reaction was absurd denial.

Impossible.

In his memory, Nora had only walked out of his hospital room that night. Calmly. She had not cried. She had not argued. In the weeks after, she had not said a single word about anything being wrong with her body.

Celeste took one step closer.

"Adrian? Nora may have known something was wrong with her body for a while. She just never…