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Chapter 140 The Quiet Before The Reckoning

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—Sophia's POV

The air was cold, colder than how it should've been for early spring.

That weird kind of cold that creeps in under your skin, not necessarily because of the weather, but because something… something unknown was coming.

You don’t see it yet, but you feel it. Like a warning before the storm comes.

I watched Ethan lace up his boots at the edge of the bed, his face half in shadow.

Irene was still asleep, small and quiet in the cot next to us, his tiny fist clutching onto the edge of his blanket, just like she was holding onto peace.

Holding it so close before the world tried to take it away again.

I sat there for a second, just breathing.

Trying to memorize the shape of this morning, the slope of Ethan’s back, the sound of wind slipping through the trees outside, the way sunlight brushed the tip of Irene's nose.

This... was home now. Not a place. Just the people. Just them.

"You sure about this?" I asked, finally.

He paused. Didn’t turn around.

"No."

A beat of silence.

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