It’s not what you think.
She poured a small glass of sherry from a crystal decanter on the side table and offered it to Laya.
“To new beginnings,” she said.
Laya hesitated… then took the glass and clinked it gently against Cybil’s.
“To Kyle,” she whispered, and drank.
That night, Laya stood by the window of her apartment, the city lights flickering below like stars caught in glass. Her dress for the ceremony hung on the back of the door: simple, elegant, ivory not white, clean and unsentimental.
She hadn’t told Kyle. Not yet. He was too weak, too fragile. And besides… how could she explain it? How could she make him understand the weight of what she was about to do?
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