LAILA’S POVThe courtyard glowed with that hazy, late-afternoon sunlight that usually made me feel calm, safe. But not today. Today, even the warmth on my skin couldn’t reach the heaviness pressing down on my chest. Every breath felt borrowed, every step toward goodbye dragging like chains at my ankles.After breakfast, Alex and I had changed into fresh clothes. Funny—his hands moved with that same confident steadiness, but mine shook so much I had to redo the buttons twice. I told myself to keep it together, to smile, to not make it harder for everyone. But the moment I stepped into the sitting room, all those good intentions scattered.Everyone I loved—my whole world—was waiting inside.My mother, Luna Hannah, sat tall and composed, as though dignity could somehow hold back grief. But I caught it anyway—the slight shimmer in her eyes, the tiny tremor in her lips when she tried to smile. My father, Xavier, stood beside her like the oak tree he had always been in my life, proud, unben
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