The quiet inside Elijah Dane Whitaker’s penthouse was far more oppressive than any sound.After yesterday’s confession to Callie, he hadn’t returned home immediately. He’d wandered. Drove aimlessly. Parked outside a twenty-four-hour diner and sat in silence for hours, watching people move through the night with purpose—servers, customers, delivery drivers. All of them living their lives without unraveling their own hearts.He hadn’t slept.Not really.Now, the morning sun cut sharp and unforgiving through the tall windows of his apartment, casting long beams across marble floors and untouched furniture. The skyline beyond the glass stretched endless and impersonal, a city too big to care.Elijah, still dressed in yesterday’s button-up and dark jeans, sat slouched on his sleek leather sofa, elbows on knees, staring at the blank TV screen in front of him.There was no distraction big enough.Callie’s face was seared into h
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