Chapter 24

Sienna

The room felt foreign yet familiar at the same time. The scent of freshly cleaned linens filled the air, mingling with the faint traces of lavender that Evelyn must have arranged for me.

Her kindness to me was one that I was never going to forget. It was at the moment where I felt the smallest and the weakest that I found myself needing her. Every word that she had said, everything that she told me, I just kept it in mind. I knew that it was a mother who would speak to her adultery this way, but I did not have a mother. My mother had passed away a very long time ago.

The walls held echoes of my past, of the girl I used to be before everything changed. Before he changed. Before the two of us have lost one another as friends.

I ran my fingers along the edge of the wooden dresser, feeling the smooth surface beneath my touch. My body still ached, exhaustion clinging to me like a second skin, but I forced myself to stay awake. I couldn’t keep laying