The Secret Whisperer
Couldn’t shake the feeling that the doors she locked weren’t going to keep anyone out.
She went downstairs and baked an apple strudel. Leila spent the rest of the night in the kitchen, wrestling with her thoughts and a batch of apples. By morning, the house smelled like cinnamon and decisions she wasn’t ready to make. The snow outside was thick, blanketing the mountains like someone had shaken up a giant snow globe. She sat down to breakfast, the strudel as perfect as you could ask for, but her appetite wasn’t really on board. Still, she ate—there wasn’t much else to do when you’d baked half the night away.
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