POV: Tristan It was Saturday evening. And for the first time in a long time, something as simple as dinner felt… complicated. I leaned back slightly in my chair, staring at the file in front of me, though I hadn’t read a single line in the past five minutes. Nathan was coming over tonight. To meet Sophie. Officially. My jaw tightened slightly as my grip on the file tightened. I didn’t know how that was going to play out yet. I didn’t know what Sophie would ask, what she would notice, or how she would react after everything she had already been through. But one thing I knew for sure— I couldn’t push this meeting any longer. Nathan had waited long enough. And Sophie deserved to know. I let out a slow breath and closed the file in front of me before pushing it aside. I had been

