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CHAPTER 12.

Author: Whyte child
last update publish date: 2026-06-13 23:32:42

The elevator doors slide shut and for the first time in weeks, I don’t cry.

I just stand there, still and Silent.

Watching my reflection in the polished steel doors.

The woman staring back at me looks exhausted.

Pale, broken but strangely calm.

The kind of calm that comes after a hurricane has ripped through everything you own. When there’s nothing left to save and nothing left to lose.

The elevator descends floor by floor yet my mind remains upstairs, stuck on the image of Ethan stan
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