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Chapter Fifteen: Saying Goodbye to Rowan

Penulis: Hayford A. Elizabeth
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-02 17:45:06

I found him in the garden before the sun was fully up.

He was sitting on the low wall where we had spent the last several evenings, facing the tree line, and I did not think he had slept. He looked up when he heard my footsteps on the stone path, and whatever he saw in my face told him immediately, because he went very still in a way that was different from his ordinary stillness.

I sat beside him. I told him directly because he had always given me directness, and it was the least I owed him in
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