Chapter 078POV FREYA When I got home, the house was quieter than usual. The kind of quiet that doesn’t comfort, it presses down, sits heavy on your skin.Bibi was sitting cross legged on her bed, coloring something I couldn’t quite make out until I leaned closer. It was a drawing of three people holding hands. One of them was smaller, with orange hair like hers. The two taller ones looked like me and Kaiden.That night had been quieter than usual. The rain had started sometime after dinner, light at first, then steady, tapping against the windows like it was trying to remind us of something we’d forgotten.She then curled beside me in bed, her hair still damp from her bath, smelling faintly of vanilla shampoo. She was tracing shapes on my arm with her finger, little hearts, circles, stars. It was our usual bedtime game.“Mommy?” she said after a while, her voice small, almost hesitant.“Yes, baby?”She kept tracing. “Can I ask you something?”“Of course you can.”She stopped, looke
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