Chapter 82
✨What Silence Sounds Like.✨ Flora Pov Flora learned quickly that silence had many sounds. It sounded like doors closing too gently. Like footsteps passing her in the hallway without stopping. Like her name spoken carefully, as if it might shatter if said too loudly. Two weeks. That was how long she had been holding herself together with politeness and routine and a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes. She hadn’t meant for it to happen this way. She hadn’t planned to pull away. But something inside her had cracked the moment Nasir said no—not as a discussion, not as concern, but as a final decision. And suddenly, the safety she’d wrapped herself in since loving him felt thinner than she realized. She folded baby clothes slowly in the guest room, smoothing the fabric over and ov
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