Chapter 64

I lay on the bed with my eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling as if the cracks and faint lines above me could give me the answers I had been searching for. The house was quiet, too quiet, and yet my head wouldn’t stop buzzing.

So much has changed since I came back. Sometimes I wondered if I had really been ready to return at all, or if I had only forced myself because of Daisy. Nothing felt steady anymore. Everything around me kept shaking, pulling me in different directions until I felt I might collapse.

I thought about how Benjamin and I had been separated, how the DNA report had crushed us both, and how the years we lost still haunted me. And then the truth came out, that everything we went through had been a mistake, that we had suffered all that pain for nothing. For five years, I had carried a wound in my chest that never healed, only to find out it was built on a lie. Coming back to him was supposed to feel like relief, like being whole again. But instead, it fe