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CHAPTER 46

Author: Tokoni Benson
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-12 00:08:26

The house felt emptier than it should have, even though I was the only one in it.

Morning light spilled softly across the floor, but it didn’t warm the chill that settled deep inside me. I sat on the edge of the bed, trying to will my heart to stop racing and my thoughts to slow down.

Dante was somewhere else, but it wasn’t just the distance between rooms. It was something heavier—like an invisible wall built of things left unsaid and feelings too raw to face.

I couldn’t shake the weight pressing down on my chest, the same one that made me question every choice I’d made lately. Every step I took felt like walking a tightrope stretched over a pit of doubt and fear.

And then my phone buzzed.

The buzzing didn’t stop. Marcus’s name kept flashing on my screen, a relentless reminder of the impossible knot I was trying to untangle. But Marcus wasn’t giving up. Not yet.

“Sienna, please. Abigail deserves to know her father.”

“I’m here, willing to do whatever it takes. Let me be there for her.
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