Chapter 43

Sienna

The night air was colder than I would have expected it to be, wrapping around me as I leaned against the wooden railing of the porch, my arms folded over my chest. The stars stretched endlessly above me, scattered like tiny diamonds against a velvet sky.

I inhaled deeply, trying to find some sort of solace in the silence, in the rhythmic sound of the wind rustling through the trees.

It had been a long day. A long few months, really. But tonight, something felt different.

Something felt off.

Everything felt different and no matter how hard I tried to deny it, I just couldn’t.

Evelyn’s words played in my head and I couldn’t help but find myself wondering where things were going now. I couldn’t help but find myself thinking of how I was going to be able to deal with things, how I was going to be able to maintain them.

I wasn’t sure if it was my own restlessness or the heavy energy that seemed to linger in the air, but I couldn’t s