Cole’s PovI noticed it slowly, the way you notice a plant wilting a little more every day until suddenly you look up and realize it’s almost gone. Sienna had always been full of life, full of opinions and plans and dreams she talked about with her hands moving as fast as her words. But over the past few months, I watched that light dim, piece by piece, buried under diapers and feedings and endless nights of rocking Jack back to sleep.One evening, I found her sitting on the edge of our bed, staring at her reflection in the mirror like she didn’t quite recognize the woman looking back at her.“Hey,” I said softly, sitting down beside her. “You okay?”“I’m fine,” she said automatically, the way she always said it now, like the word had become a reflex instead of the truth.“Sienna,” I said gently, “you don’t have to say that to me. Not to me.”She sighed, her shoulders dropping slightly. “I don’t even know who I am anymore, Cole. I used to have opinions about things. I used to read bo
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